Re: source control management for Octave

[David Bateman]

John W. Eaton wrote:

> On 19-Oct-2005, David Bateman wrote:
>
> | John, have you had a chance to try this out?
>
> No, and I may not, at least for a few weeks.
>
> Can someone please try to explain what the advantages will be for me
> if we make the switch?
>
>  
To me, I believe the major advantage is atomic commits, so if one part 
of a set of patches isn't applied then the whole set isn't applied. You 
therefore can't accidentally leave to tree is a partially unsynchronized 
state. It also makes it easier to back out a particular change that 
alters multiple files, as each set of changes is considered together. 
You can also move files and directories while keeping the file history, 
and subversion is much better at handling binary files than cvs..

For me there is also the fact that svn can be made to work over http and 
ssl and so I'll be able to access the repository from behind a firewall, 
but that probably not an issue to you.

A reasonable, but out of date comparison of version control systems can 
be found at

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/01/29/scm_overview.html

regards
David

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