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

[Janko Hauser]

On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 10:18:34 +0200
Steve Alexander <steve at z3u.com> wrote:

> They way we've done this using in the schooltool project is to check
> the things we're using from Zope CVS into the schooltool subversion
> repository as anonymous CVS checkouts. We can keep our local changes
> in subversion. When we want to re-synch our checkouts from the Zope
> repository, it is just a matter of doing a subversion checkout, with
> CVS directories included, then doing a normal 'cvs up'.
>

But the big advantage of the local version history is lost by this
approach. Subversion can do something like exports, which could be
then imported into another one.

Another thing to remember is the feature that the svn can output the
normal console output as xml, which helps a lot to created automated
scripts. Together with the ability to store something like script
specific data into properties of directories for example, this gives
way to many hacks. 

Just a note, I'm using svn although on a much smaller level.

__Janko