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KDE Switches to Subversion

Posted by timothy on from the next-generation dept.

Michael Pyne writes "It's official, after weeks of preparation, KDE has completed switching their source control repository from CVS to Subversion. KDE is one of the largest software projects to make the switch, and is the first major desktop environment to do so. Some of the goodies that CVS users are used to are still in the process of being switched over (including WebSVN), but everything seems to be working well so far." (The announcement of early April is no longer the operative statement.)

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  1. A much needed switch by CastrTroy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Its nice to see them making the switch. Having used both Subversion and CVS, I have to say that Subversion is much better. I hope more projects continue to do the same. Its amazing that CVS has lasted as long as it has.

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  2. Re:Why not everyone likes svn: by GuidoW · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is why subversion has the svn dump command (or was it svnadmin dump or svndump? Well, it doesn't really matter) that you can use to do backups of your repository to _plaintext_ files, just like you would use pg_dump to backup your postgresql database.

    Obviously, if you don't use the feature, it's pretty useless, but, hey, how often has it been pointed out that every serious project that uses computers needs a good backup strategy?

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  3. Re:I truly wished they have given a different name by killjoe · · Score: 3, Insightful

    " My managers simply refuse to use anything proposed by us, the development team, and named subversion."

    For the umpteenth time people. When you say things like this name your company. We all want to make sure we don't have ny stock in companies with this kind of management.

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  4. WTF by eldacan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The GNOME people are probably breaking out the champagne at this point. :-(

    Excuse me!? Please don't spread the disgusting idea that GNOME people would rejoice at hundreds of FOSS developers losing their work.

    There may be many "trolls" among GNOME and KDE users, but there are many intelligent people among the devs, who collaborate through freedesktop.org and even joke together, like on April 1st when they made planet.gnome.org point to planetkde.org and vice versa.