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KDE Moves to BitKeeper
jonathan_ingram writes "After struggling for several months with a planned changeover from CVS to Subversion, the KDE team have abandoned the effort, and decided to move to BitKeeper instead. As KDE's press release states: "The KDE project had been using CVS for a number of years, but due to persistent and crippling limitations it was finally decided to convert the massive source repository to Subversion, a next-generation CVS clone with fewer limitations. Unfortunately, due to many unresolved issues and technical problems with Subversion, the move has proven impossible. After an intense internal debate, it was finally decided that BitKeeper would be the most appropriate choice for a new revision control system, given its proven superiority and track record in the Open Source community. BitKeeper has enjoyed wide-spread success and praise as the official source code repository for the GNU/Linux kernel."
I never tried Subversion, but i've heard it's quite good. Can anyone compare it against CVS and the competition?
SVN is like CVS, but with fixes for all the stupid annoying issues. You can actually version directories and metadata in SVN, which rocks. About time.
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KDE e.V. board member Mirko Bohemian stated, "Following our licencing deal with BitMover, we expect our developers will be twice as productive, just as the GNU kernel developers are now." Linus Torvalds was not available for comment.
The only significant drawback of the deal is that KDE developers will not be allowed to work on or contribute to any other source control systems as mandated by the BitKeeper license. To comply with this requirement, KDE has temporarily removed Cervisia from the kdesdk module until the CVS support can be replaced by full BitKeeper functionality.
However, like the GNU/Linux kernel repository, KDE will be available through a read-only CVS interface for anyone preferring not to use BitKeeper for idealistic reasons.
As a matter of pragmatism, the KDE project believes it is time to move forward and embrace next-generation software source control.
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...this has more humour value for the actual KDE(-devel) community for which it was intended, as KDE really *is* moving over to Subversion. The migration was originally planned to be completed today, but was delayed for a few more days due to various issues.
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