[Bioperl-l] First cut svn repository [was Re: SVN and ...Re: Perltidy]

[Chris Fields]

On Jun 27, 2007, at 9:23 AM, rvos wrote:

>
>> Are we going to try to push svn commits to the read-mostly CVS repo,
>> or just keep it around for history's sake (I lean towards the  
>> latter).
>
> I'm a little confused - surely once the svn is up and running we'll  
> want *no more* cvs commits? Parallel repositories that each  
> accumulate stuff will be a nightmare. I'm probably just not getting  
> your point.
>
> Rutger

Most projects make a clean break with cvs (no more commits) for the  
reasons you point out.  Not sure how the other core devs feel about  
that but I could go for that; it would def. prevent headaches.  We  
could keep cvs for the time being as read-only, with no svn->cvs  
syncing.

There are few projects which have (as a phase-out plan) old read-only  
cvs repositories available, with an automatic svn->cvs commit  
following every new svn commit.  Not sure how that works, esp. for  
branching/merging and so on which I could see potentially getting hairy.

chris