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Re: converting from SVN to CVS

From: Toby Thain <toby_at_telegraphics.com.au>
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:48:02 -0500

On 29-Jan-09, at 9:02 AM, JeremyP wrote:

> On 29 Jan 2009, at 08:42, Spiro Trikaliotis wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Erik Huelsmann wrote:
>>
>>>
>>
>>> Cygwin is an ugly
>>> workaround for problems people are having with their OS.
>>
>> Oh, that's the problem: We don't like Windows, thus, we don't like
>> Cygwin, either. Yes, that's easy.
>
> Actually, that's not what he's saying, in fact quite the opposite.
> The Subversion developers fully embrace Windows which is why they have
> a native Windows build that doesn't need Cygwin. ...
>
>>
>> If the native SVN would work flawlessly on Cygwin (in a bash
>> shell), I
>> would use it. In fact, on one machine, I had tested this. However,
>> there
>> are problems in this setup, too. For example, SVN cannot call
>> (Cygwin's)
>> vim in a way that I can enter anything into it for commits, and I do
>> not
>> like calling svn commit --file XXX to do a commit.
>
> You should try TortoiseSVN. Then the editor becomes irrelevant.

Another nice option on Windows would be Eclipse + Subclipse.

--Toby

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