[LLVMdev] moving to svn?

Reid Spencer rspencer at reidspencer.com
Mon Nov 27 13:03:36 PST 2006


On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 15:22 -0500, Chris Morgan wrote:
> > 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).
> >
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean here by merge tracking but merge tracking
> in SVN is under development but not yet complete or available in a
> supported release.

Sure, the full merge tracking functionality isn't available (yet), but
its definitely easier to keep track of with subversion.  In any event,
its not likely to change in the near future. I suppose this could be a
topic for LLVM Conference 2007 :)

Reid.

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