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[Peter Brown <farrukh@wellfleetsoftware.com>]

“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:farrukh@wellfleetsoftware.com]

Sent: Fri, 09 April 2010 10:46

To: David RR Webber (XML)

Cc: oasis-member-discuss@lists.oasis-open.org

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