On 29 Mar 2001, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> Tripp Lilley <tlilley@perspex.com> writes:
>
> > Actually, to satisfy my curiousity, could someone tell me if any of the
> > "core team" has significant experience with Perforce? I'm asking because
> > the general philosophy and "mental model" of Perforce is sufficiently
> > different from that of RCS, CVS, SourceSafe, MKS, and other "children of
> > RCS" that it seems a good idea to study it and mine it.
>
> None of us have used Perforce really, and SVN is attempting to
> (mostly) emulate CVS's model, at least in the user interface.
> However, because of the way our repository stores trees, a
> Perforce-using acquaintance of ours has told us that our
> "branches-are-just-subdirs" model is very similar to Perforce.
That's good to hear. I mean "branches-are-just-subdirs", not "emulate
CVS's model" :) When I have cycles (hah!), I'll peer more closely at svn
and see if it might not be possible to build a system that offers
Perforce's worldview. I suspect it -won't- be "compatible" with svn (as in
one can use the same repo in either "cvs-similar" mode or
"perforce-similar" mode), but that it could at least be built upon the
same core code (the svn filesystem, the WebDAV stuff, etc.)
Ah, another research project. Thanks, folks! ;)
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Joy-Loving * Tripp Lilley * http://stargate.eheart.sg505.net/~tlilley/
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