“There is really no good argument I have seen on why one
should stick with svn.”
Except for the cost of migration, which could be
considerable given that the OASIS IT infrastructure is in the process of a
major overhaul. Sometimes the best is the enemy of the good – in the current
circumstances, I really do think you would need to explain the specific and
measurable advantages over the current system and/or the dangers of staying
with same…
Cheers,
Peter
(Speaking as an ordinary OASIS participant and not on behalf
of the Board)
From:
Farrukh Najmi [mailto:]
Sent: Fri, 09 April 2010 10:46
To: David RR Webber (XML)
Cc:
Subject: Re: [oasis-member-discuss] Request for mercurial or git
distributed VCS
Hi David,
There are *more* clients on *more* platforms for mercurial that are *better*
than *any* clients on *any* platform for svn:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercurial#Related_software
As for tortoisesvn you should check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TortoiseHg
There is really no good argument I have seen on why one should stick with svn.
Even inertia does not count since mercurial's ConvertExtension can convert from
most legacy VCS including svn seamlessly while preserving *all* history of *all*
branches.
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/ConvertExtension
Try converting to mercurial. IMHO, you will be very glad you did.
On 04/09/2010 01:15 PM, David RR Webber (XML) wrote:
Farrukh,
I must confess svn is my go-to solution -
and I cannot live without tortoisesvn client for Windows - using it daily.
Is there a similar solution for Mercurial
or git VCS? If there's something better - I'm definitely interested in
looking into it! I'm familiar with some svn limitations.
You are indeed correct that it had escaped
my attention that OASIS now has svn - and most definitely this is something now
as a priority to facilitate specification work - so I will look into this
soonest.
Thanks, DW
