Switching from CVS to SVN

Posted At : October 8, 2007 8:39 AM | Posted By : michael traher
Related Categories: CVS,SVN

We are in the process of switching from CVS to SVN as our source control system. It is nearly four years ago that we first started using CVS and it has served us well. The main two reasons for changing are

  • that SVN is an active project that continues to improve and be developed
  • that using svn with apache allows much better/granular/easy to administer access control than CVS


    • There does appear to be a downside and that is simply that the Eclipse plugins are just not quite as sweet as the integrated CVS interface that comes bundled with Eclipse. As I get to grips with it more I will post the main issues here and to the appropriate mailing lists. At least these are active projects which can only improve.

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jeff's Gravatar Check out subclipse:

http://subclipse.tigris.org/

It's pretty great. Allows you to do most anything. Although the Export is pretty slow. I use SVNX on OS X to do my exports.
# Posted By jeff | 10/8/07 2:31 PM
Michael Traher's Gravatar Hi Jeff, I read several subclipse vs subversion posts and it seemed that the community is a bit polarised, and that neither is without its drawbacks. However on the good side they are active projects that we can influence probably more readily than the main eclipse development where cvs is only one part. With SVN becoming more the defacto standard I wonder if the eclipse team could be persuaded to adopt it into the main project.... I used this <a href="http://www.barneyb.com/barneyblog/2006/10/26/subcl... by Barney</a> to inform my choice of plugin.
# Posted By Michael Traher | 10/8/07 3:34 PM
kola's Gravatar Mike I would be interested to hear how you guys are securing it.
# Posted By kola | 11/30/07 10:56 PM
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