Re: [Serna] File locking/versioning with Serna -- what are others using?

p wrote:

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> Then take it from there. I promise you that you won't regret using subversion 
> as a version control system. Again, it's a biased opinion - and other people 
> may argue that CVS would be a better way to go. I've been using subversion on 
> a daily basis for more than 2 years now, and have begun to love the power of 
> it (and accepted it's few quirks).

If the choice is between CVS and Subversion there is no question: use 
Subversion. Subversion does everything CVS does more or less the way CVS 
does it and does other important things as well, such as atomic commits 
of multiple files, versioning of directories, and, most important for 
XML content, handles Unicode data correctly (CVS does not understand 
Unicode and can hose up non-ASCII XML data stored in CVS as ASCII).

 From a UI standpoint, the popular UIs for CVS are also available for 
Subversion (e.g., Tortoise, Eclipse's Team features, etc.).

Also, because Subversion is natively HTTP based, where CVS uses private 
protocols, it's much easier to expose Subversion using normal HTTP and 
Web-based tools rather than having to do special configurations, for 
example, to allow CVS pserver traffic through a firewall.

If you have an existing CVS repository there is a very smooth migration 
path from CVS to Subversion whereby you can take your CVS repository and 
do a one-time import to Subversion with no loss of version history.

Cheers,

Eliot

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