Version Control

Subversion?

I think I've asked before, but has anyone looked at "subversion" as a (better) replacement for CVS? Advantages I can see are:

1. Directory structures are tracked
2. Can attach metadata
3. Files accessible over http(s), ssh etc

One downside (change) is that revisions are over the whole tree, not on a per-file basis.

Have a look at http://subversion.tigris.org and there's a book describing usage and changes at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/book/book.html

The public cmiss subversion repository is at https://svn.physiomeproject.org/svn/cmiss/

comments:

4. User access not required --andre, Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:12:20 +1200 reply
Using subversion committers no longer require read/write access to the code repository. This is seen as a huge security advantage. Could be good if more people will be accessing cmiss code more from outside the university firewall.

Use by Apache Software Foundation --andre, Tue, 15 Jun 2004 12:15:09 +1200 reply
The ASF has recently begun recommending all its projects look at changing over to subversion from CVS. While it is still a gentle recommendation, they also state that the change will probably be enforced in the not too distant future (two/three year time frame).