[kaffe-siteadmin] Kaffe.org CVS script is running amok :(

[Jim Pick]

Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Jim Pick wrote:
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>> Dalibor Topic wrote:
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>> What happened was that /home ran out of diskspace, and 
>> /home/resend/.cvsps got corrupted.  I regenerated it, and it's fixed 
>> now, I think.
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> Oh, great, I didn't actually notice problems .. Thanks!
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>> It's not a very robust script.  :-(
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> NP, I just thought it was on a rampage and needed to be put on a leash.

Nah, it was just sent out one broken email per checkin.  Somebody else 
was on a rampage.  :-)

>> I imagine that we'll probably move away from CVS in a while.  There 
>> seems to be a lot of activity in the revision-control / SCM area right 
>> now, so I don't know what would be the most fun to switch to.  :-)
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> A few wishes were expressed towards subversion. I can blissfully admit 
> that I have no idea how much fun it is, as I have mostly managed to 
> avaoid anything but CVs so far. But if it lets me move a few files 
> around without losing their history, that would certainly open a few 
> possibilities :)

I do like subversion - I've been using it for my own stuff for about a 
year.  But there is a lot of action in the area of BitKeeper-style 
replacements, which are less centralized, and might be more "fun" for 
decentralized Linux-style development (eg. people can make their own 
repositories, and do lots of experimental branch/forking).  I'm thinking 
of things like monotone, arch, git, bazaar-ng, mercurial, etc, etc, etc.

Decentralized development is very cool, but so is getting all the 
changes to flow back to a central repository where they can get merged 
back in.  It will be interesting to see how all this new stuff evolves 
over time.

The only real advantage that CVS has is that it is ancient, so everybody 
already has it.  I think I want to concentrate on moving stuff to the 
new server for now.

Cheers,

  - Jim