[CMake] the switch to subversion?

[Jesper Eskilson]

Esben Mose Hansen wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 September 2008 18:10:05 Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> 
>> svn 'external' links to repositories (not tested). Do not know what is
>> the default behavior for branching...
> 
> I'd stay away from svn:externals. We used those extensively in my company, and 
> they are a bother. E.g, branching doesn't work too well with externals.
> 
> We have also started using git, and that is much nicer than svn. But as you 
> say, windows support might be an issue. Since the issues are founded in the 
> limitations of windows, I doubt this will be resolved soon.

Don't be so sure. There are quite a few people wanting and working on a 
native Git port for Windows.

OTOH, the Cygwin-port of Git works very nice.

( Fortunately for
> me, windows is something that happens to other people :p )