[Zope-Coders] Re: [ZODB-Dev] Re: revising layout of ZODB3 checkout

[Ken Manheimer]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Casey Duncan wrote:

> On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 12:27:56 -0500
> Jeremy Hylton <jeremy at zope.com> wrote:
> [..]
> > > BTW, I have never heard any advocacy (on zope-coders) for another 
> > > alternative than SVN.
> > 
> > Here's an example of anti-SVN advocacy from Tom Lord, the author of
> > arch:
> > http://lists.fifthvision.net/pipermail/arch-users/2003-February/025283.html
> 
> Wow, those are definitely interesting insights. My favorite section
> title is: "Failure to Fail". 
> 
> Ouch.

Interesting insights from someone who took a different approach in a
different, competing tool.  Useful info, but hard to assign it a
weight.

It's probably worth looking over two comparison charts findable from
the URLs jeremy mentioned:

  http://better-scm.berlios.de/comparison/comparison.html
  http://gnuarch.org/bin/view/Main/SubVersionAndCvsComparison

In the first, subversion looks quite good, while the second, from the
'arch' development site, arch looks better.  While the lack of
corroboration between the two might be frustrating, tracking through
the discrepancies might make for a useful focus.

Offhand, the first comparison of the two reduces reluctance i might
have for svn (particularly from the drawbacks indicated in the
second).

Ken