[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/libvo x11_common.c,1.176,1.177

[Diego Biurrun]

Gábor Farkas writes:
> On Sat, 2004-09-04 at 13:20 +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
> wrote: 
> > On Saturday, 04 September 2004 at 03:00, Attila Kinali wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 03:39:19AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I dislike "reverting" changes with cvs admin more and more every day.
> > > > This completely subverts the idea of version control.  Right now we
> > > > are in a situation where somebody made a change and we don't know who
> > > > did it or when.  Revision control is supposed to prevent, not cause
> > > > this.
> > > 
> > > Full ACK.
> > > 
> > > IMHO we should think about switching to something else than cvs.
> > 
> > Hm... subversion?
> maybe you should look also at arch.
> 
> some projects (xorg for example) decided that they won't switch to
> subversion,
> because it's not that much better than cvs.

We don't need perfect, good enough will do.

> i mean, subversion is definitively better (atomic comits, move/renames
> handled),
> but maybe you should make a bigger step, and use something like arch or
> monotone.

The biggest difference is centralized vs distributed development.
Since we develop centrally, I don't see how we could get a big benefit
out of a distributed revision control system.  I'm open to
suggestions, though.

>From what I've seen so far, svn is just what we need.

Diego