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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. Re:dead... by mini+me · · Score: 2, Insightful

    SVN really is dead. While I could understand the move a few years ago, SVN is antiquated technology now. I'm not sure why anyone would want to use it in a new rollout when there are newer and significantly better options available now.

  2. Re:dead... by Timothy+Brownawell · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I think any distributed version control system (ie, pretty much all the new free ones except SVN) will encourage branching, lack of a central authority just about requires this.