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FreeBSD Begins Switch to Subversion

Posted by timothy on from the subvert-the-dominant-paradigm dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The FreeBSD Project has begun the switch of its source code management system from CVS to Subversion. At this point in time, FreeBSD's developers are making changes to the base system in the Subversion repository. We have a replication system in place that exports our work to the legacy CVS tree on a continuous basis. People who are using our extensive CVS based distribution network (including anoncvs, CVSup, cvsweb, ftp) will not be interrupted by our work-in-progress. We are committed to maintaining the existing CVS based distribution system for at least the support lifetime of all existing 'stable' branches. Security and errata patches will continue to be made available in their usual CVS locations."

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  1. Oh really? by krog · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thanks for promptly settling the SCM dispute! Now I'd love to hear your ideas on which text editor is the best.

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    1. Re:Oh really? by 0xABADC0DA · · Score: 5, Funny

      VI lost the editor war early on. Its focus on text files with little to no support for email or shell prompts or playing text-mode hangman made it unpopular. That's a situation that has changed (somewhat), but the stigma is still attached to it. Which is not really a problem. VI was developed to meet the needs of text editing. If it happens to meet the needs of other activities, great. If it doesn't, that's just as fine.

      In any case, EMACS ended up being the "best of breed" solution. It offered all the features of the competing editors, was portable across platforms, had a significant tools (and games) appear practically overnight, and is used by HUGE OSS icons like RMS. I've used it in my own projects and have found that it is much easier and more dynamic than the classic, command/insert model of VI.

      har, har...

    2. Re:Oh really? by hawk · · Score: 2, Funny

      EMACS has an editor?

      I guess we can finaly put away the old complaint about being a great OS in need of a good editor . . .

      hawk

    3. Re:Oh really? by WK2 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes, EMACS has an editor. Vi runs in EMACS.

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  2. Re:GIT? by Chemisor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, if you believe Linus, it must be because they are ugly and stupid :)

  3. Re:CVSup by kv9 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Likely, all you will need to do with subversion is this: > cd /usr/ports > svn update ... come back later to an updated portage tree. heathen!
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