[LLVMdev] moving to svn?

[Rafael Espíndola]

> Its been discussed from time to time. I would like to see this as well,
> but for an additional reasons: simpler branch management and faster
> updates, etc. SVN handles directories better and merging head to/from a
> branch is much easier (no tagging required because it remembers the
> merges).
Yes. This is very nice. Atomic commits are also usefull for finding
the patch that introduced or fixed a bug.

> Unfortunately, this is a pretty big change. The main issues are:
> 1. retention of original log
> 2. converting the post-commit scripts
> 3. Subversion isn't fully distributed and if we're going to change, is
> SVN really the
>    best choice?
I have just created a copy of the llvm-gcc repository using svk and I
like it! It should also be easier to move from cvs to svn then to git
for exemple.

> Reid.

Rafael