Re: networking repositories

Tom Lord wrote:
> * platform-dependent line-endings (ie. with svn:eol-style=native)
>
> I don't know much about this area, being rather focused on unix.

That's quite simple, really. If diff(1) generates a patch between foo.orig
and foo, that have CRLF line endings, patch(1) won't apply it to a
copy of foo.orig that has LF line endings. Hence the diff output is non
portable where line endings may vary.

> There is ongoing discussion on the arch-users mailing list about
> finalizing our changeset format and semantics, and if you have
> an informed perspective on this issue, I encourage you to participate.

Please don't suck me into yet another mailing list !-)

> Thus you'll need to add metadata in the output, and have the import
> program correctly interpret this. (but it'd be great!)
>
> It is great. A distributed system that handles these things well is a
> joy to use.

I can imagine this.

> It's instructive to look at the engineering practices going into the
> linux 2.6 effort to begin to understand why distributed revision
> control is critical, these days. In reading the related materials,
> keep an eye out for phrases like "nicely broken out change/patch
> sets".

Off-topic question : besides Linux and Perl 5, are there out there significative
open-source projects that use something more "recent" than CVS/RCS/SCCS (and
that are not SCMs ?)

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Received on Sun Oct 27 22:55:08 2002