[python-committers] Survey about DVCSs compared to svn

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Feb 26, 2009, at 11:10 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

> So just to get this right: The Subversion admins on python.org do
> not have to setup anything special for DVCS mirror sites to hook
> up to the main Subversion repo.

True.  If we wanted to host the DVCS branches on python.org, we'd have  
to set up the update scripts, either cron or something else.  We'd  
probably also want to set up the ViewDVCS web server.

> IMHO, those are all feel-good factors which can easily be had by
> installing a local Subversion repo copy (sync'ed using svnsync (*)),
> except perhaps regarding merging - but I don't know anything about
> in what way the DVCSes are better than Subversion.
>
> (*) This provides fast reads. Writes will still have to to the
> main repo site. See
> http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.5_releasenotes.html#webdav-proxy

Writes are the biggest problem to me.  I want full access to all my  
VCS features, even when I'm disconnected from the net.

Barry

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