[Python-Dev] PEP: Migrating the Python CVS to Subversion

[Oleg Broytmann]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 10:00:00PM +0200, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:
> I'd like to see the Python source be stored in Subversion instead
> of CVS, and on python.org instead of sf.net.

   +1, +1.

> CVS has a number of limitations that have been elimintation by
> Subversion. For the development of Python, the most notable improvements
> are:
> - ability to rename files and directories, and to remove directories,
>   while keeping the history of these files.
> - support for change sets (sets of correlated changes to multiple
>   files) through global revision numbers.
> - support for offline diffs, which is useful when creating patches.

-- transactional operation - a changeset is either committed or rolled back
   at once;
-- very effective (both in terms of speed and memory) tagging and
   branching; tags and branches are very easy to understand and use in SVN.

Oleg.
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