Wednesday, 28 July 2004
This looks like a very promising alternative to CVS. Subversion is very
similar to CVS on the outside so you can easily migrate from CVS to Subversion,
but the underlying structure and operation of Subversion addresses many of the
shortcomings of CVSSo, it's happened again. Once more CVS has corrupted your repository, leaving you twitching and wrenching violently on the floor of your cubicle. You struggle to cry out, but all of your strength's been sapped by hours of needless frustration.
Well, perhaps that's a bit of an overdramatization... but not by much. While CVS is a common tool for open source development, it's not necessarily a popular one. Yes, it's free and it does it's job, but that's about it. Clunky, limiting, and at times downright dangerous, it's a necessary evil.
Or rather, was a necessary evil. Now, there's an alternative.
In late 2000, a group of developers decided to create something better than CVS and thus Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org) was born. Designed from the ground up to be "a compelling replacement for CVS," Subversion 1.0 has just been released. Let's take a look at Subversion, compare it to CVS, learn the most common Subversion commands, and see how to migrate a CVS repository to Subversion
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