Well, I can say I use subversion on a daily basis. On Linux I either use the good ol' command like (quick and dirty), eSVN (found it from somewhere, and it works quite well), or the NetBeans plugin for it (in 'alpha' stage, but found it has worked quite well').
And on windows my main tool of choice is TortoiseSVN which integrates nicely with windows explorer and is very easy to use. I know for the future KDE will have SVN in there Ceversa (sp?) client. I've had no problems with using any of the clients, besides a very occasional crash on eSVN with an older version, and have always been able to hack around with the command line as well, so I really doubt its a client issue. My biggest bet is that most people are afraid of change and the fact that there is work in switching from CVS to Subversion, although the tools do help a lot. And then some people are happy with CVS and will say 'why fix it if it aint broke?' You decide on who's right and come to your own conclusions. On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 12:22:34 -0500, Wade Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Martin Fuchs wrote: > > Hello, > > > > is there already any plan to switch from CVS as source code repository to > > the successor "Subversion"? > > I think Subversion has now become quite stable, and we could take > > advantage of reworked new tool. Here you can read about all the new > > features compared to CVS: > > http://subversion.tigris.org/ > > > > There exists a python script "cvs2svn", which makes the conversion of the > > CVS repository quite easy. I shortly did this transition with two CVS repos, > > and found now problems. The complete history is preserved, and even tags > > and branches are available after. > > > > On the client side there are available several different SVN clients. > > First of all there is the standard command line client. For integrated > > Java development there is Eclipse plugin called "Subclipse". And there > > is also a Explorer interface for MS Windows named "TortoiseSVN". > > > > If there is interest, I could help in setting up the SVN server. > > > > Regards, > > > > Martin > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: > > unsubscribe castor-dev > My experience with Subversion is that the clients suck. I have tried to > setup repositories before, and the server seemed to run fine, but the > clients would crash and act up on different OS, and there seem to not be > as many clients available for Subversion as for CVS. This has been my > experience. What version of Subversion are you using? Which clients > are you using? For instance, I don't use Eclipse. I use Netbeans. I > have wanted to use Subversion for a good while, but didn't have anyone > to ask who was using it in the real world. For instance, source forge > talked about Subversion a long while ago, yet they have never set it up. > They were going to keep both cvs and subversion, and allow project to > use either or, but subversion never came along. I don't know that many > projects using Subversion yet either. I guess I'm wondering why it > isn't widely used, and why there are not many clients for it. I would > have thought there would have been a good Linux client for it, but never > found one that ran correctly.....beside the command line. > > Wade > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: > unsubscribe castor-dev > ----------------------------------------------------------- If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of: unsubscribe castor-dev
