[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/libvo x11_common.c,1.176,1.177

[Diego Biurrun]

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski writes:
> On Saturday, 04 September 2004 at 03:00, Attila Kinali wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:39:19AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > 
> > > I dislike "reverting" changes with cvs admin more and more every day.
> > > This completely subverts the idea of version control.  Right now we
> > > are in a situation where somebody made a change and we don't know who
> > > did it or when.  Revision control is supposed to prevent, not cause
> > > this.
> > 
> > Full ACK.
> > 
> > IMHO we should think about switching to something else than cvs.
> 
> Hm... subversion?

Sounds like a good idea to me.  It's also possible to convert CVS
repositories to SVN repositories.  It worked well for the VideoLAN
guys.  I'll get to play around with it for work in the near future.

> > The two thinks that suck for me the most are that all changes are
> > file local, ie it's hard to see what else changed with a certain commit.
> 
> True, unless you have a cvslog maillist, like we do.

That's still not perfect since you get several messages for commits to
several directories.

> > And that it doesnt support revertion of changes.
> 
> True, this is a major PITA.

Neither does SVN.  And as stated above, I think it is a bad idea to
begin with.

Diego