chris clepper wrote:
What are the advantages of using SVN compared to CVS for our purposes?
well, i guess the adavantages are not _that_ huge compared to what e.g. the pd-cvs would gain from switching to subversion.
here are a few:
- cleanup of the repository files: renaming of files like my "pix_filmNEW" to something which like "pix_filmBETTER" (only joking), or to something really meaningful.
- cleanup of the repository structure (remove unused directories, like ./src/yuv or ./src/Gnu without losing the history)
- keep the directory structure of branches tidy: in CVS you cannot create a directory in one branch which does not exist in the other branches. for example, like the current videoIO project of thomas: in an svn repository his commits would be totally invisible to the "trunk", he could just work on his branch and do whatever he wanted (e.g. create/delete directories,...)
- and finally: if pure-data's cvs is to switch to subversion one time and it is to be hosted at puredata.info (these are all "ifs" and "whens" to be decided not by me), then i would like to have tried this out in real world beforehand.
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