Re: [PATCHES] CVS should die

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Gaetano Mendola wrote:

> Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
>> I'm certainly open to considering subversion, although I have a certain
>> traumatic experience with it that may or may not be related to the BDB
>> backend that it uses.
>>
>> I think for a start it would be nice if pgfoundry could optionally offer
>> subversion (and/or arch) for source control, so that some developer groups
>> and also our system administrators could get some experience with it.
>
> I good very start point is see if cvs2svn can handle the postgresql CVS
> without
> errors.

I tried that yesterday out of curiosity. It had problems with 3 files
which I removed manually:

/pgsql/src/interfaces/perl5/Attic/ApachePg.pl,v
/pgsql/src/interfaces/perl5/Attic/test.pl.newstyle,v
/pgsql/src/interfaces/perl5/Attic/test.pl.oldstyle.pl,v

Otherwise, no problems.

Interestingly, the subversion repository is 585MB, and the CVS repository
is only 260MB, so apparently Subversion is not very good at compressing
the repository. Not that it matters, though.

FWIW, I think Peter's idea of offering Subversion as an alternative in
pgfoundry is very good.

I also agree with Andrew's observation that it's really up to the
committers since they are the ones that have to work with whatever system
we have.

I like subversion very much, but one thing that troubles me a bit is the
number of extra libraries required to compile and run it. Also, is there
pre-compiled binaries for all the platforms that PostgreSQL supports?

- Heikki