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Re: converting from SVN to CVS

From: Dextrous <dextrous85_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:34:38 +0530

Ammunition is available all over the place on the internet on peoples blog
trend of increasing Subversion adoption of people.
 i wrote a blog entry on this long time back Ten Reasons Why You Should Use
Subversion <http://www.singhvishwajeet.com/2008/07/20/4/>

Business case of same should be prepared and benefits should be seen as long
term not short term.

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday_at_crashcourse.ca>wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, JeremyP wrote:
>
> > On 22 Jan 2009, at 22:34, Jason Boehle wrote:
> >
> > > My company has been acquired, and we previously used SVN, but the
> > > new company uses CVS.
> >
> > My deepest sympathies.
> >
> > I don't know the answer to your specific question (so you can stop
> > reading now if you like), but I would resist migrating back, if I
> > were you and in fact I would do my best to convince your new masters
> > to migrate to svn rather than the other way around. Subversion is
> > far superior to CVS.
>
> sure it is, but if you were in jeremy's position and were asked to
> make a case for moving on up to svn, how would you do it? in most
> cases, any argument for migrating to a new piece of software will be
> met with, "but XYZ has worked for us so far, i don't see any need to
> change."
>
> most people on this list are technically adept with subversion.
> where's the marketing? where's the ammunition that jeremy could take
> into a meeting with his new bosses?
>
> rday
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Cheers,
Vishwajeet
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