From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill Wohler Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Switching to Subversion (was: CVS commits and logs) Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 09:00:29 -0800 Organization: Newt Software Message-ID: <10609.1163264429@olgas.newt.com> References: <87r6wh1o5h.fsf@olgas.newt.com> <87bqnk74d1.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87irhqho6w.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87mz6y8y3j.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <87bqne87ur.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163264561 19357 80.91.229.2 (11 Nov 2006 17:02:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2006 17:02:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 11 18:02:37 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GiwFW-0001pF-V7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 18:02:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GiwFV-0004Ll-PF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:02:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GiwDn-0003rY-BN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:00:47 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GiwDi-0003pA-59 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:00:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GiwDh-0003oz-Pm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:00:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.69.195.64] (helo=pop-knobcone.atl.sa.earthlink.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GiwDc-0001te-F5; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:00:36 -0500 Original-Received: from h-68-165-5-48.snvacaid.dynamic.covad.net ([68.165.5.48] helo=olgas.newt.com) by pop-knobcone.atl.sa.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1GiwDb-0006Z1-00; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 12:00:35 -0500 Original-Received: by olgas.newt.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D44AC16FA1; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 09:00:29 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from olgas.newt.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by olgas.newt.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1C4816F9F; Sat, 11 Nov 2006 09:00:29 -0800 (PST) Original-To: Miles Bader In-reply-to: <87bqne87ur.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Comments: In-reply-to Miles Bader message dated "Sat, 11 Nov 2006 21:51:08 +0900." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.0; nmh 1.1; GNU Emacs 22.0.50 X-Image-URL: http://www.newt.com/wohler/images/bill-diving.png Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:62075 Archived-At: Miles Bader wrote: > Andreas Schwab writes: > >> (CVS spits out lists of tags at times, e.g. if you do "cvs log", and > >> if there are 10,000 almost identical tags ...). > > > > Adding "log -N" to .cvsrc avoids that. > > Yeah, but still it's somewhat annoying to have a bazillion tags. > E.g. sometimes I _want_ to see what tags there are, and having to deal > with filtering out a bunch of "uninteresting" tags is a bit of a bother. > Also they clog up tag menus in various CVS web interfaces. I agree with Miles. CVS' tag implementation encourages the use of as few tags as possible. Subversion's implementation, however, allows you to organize hierarchical layers of tags. This is just one of many problems that would just go away if we switched to Subversion. It would be a good time to switch after releasing 22 and merging in the Unicode branch. -- Bill Wohler http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD