[CMake] the switch to subversion?

[Mathieu Malaterre]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
> Mike Arthur wrote:
>>
>> On Tuesday 23 September 2008 16:19:05 Michael Wild wrote:
>>>
>>> git rocks! ;-)
>>
>> I agree but not everyone is happy using the console for their VCS. You
>> move to git and you alienate said people. Subversion, on the other hand, has
>> a lots of GUI tools available for such folks.
>>
> Lets not have the git/cvs/svn discussion we had in January...  Here is the
> thread if someone wants to read it:
>
> http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2008-January/018976.html
>
> We (Kitware) have issues with moving to svn (or any other VCS) because of
> the way we have abused cvs.  We use symbolic links on the server side to
> "share" kwsys with several projects.  To date we have not yet found a good
> way to do this from svn.

svn 'external' links to repositories (not tested). Do not know what is
the default behavior for branching...

2cts
-- 
Mathieu