SCM options (was Re: Where is FreeBSD going?)

[Ryan Sommers]

Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 7:27 PM -0800 1/9/04, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> 
>> Hi;
>>
>> There is a comparison here:
>> http://better-scm.berlios.de/comparison/comparison.html
>>
>> I think there are compelling reasons to try subversion,
>> but we have to wait for a 1.0 Release, and this would be
>> something that should be done gradually.. for example
>> moving the ports tree first.
> 
> 
> That's a pretty major test!  Could we perhaps pick off
> something smaller?  The "projects" repository, for
> instance?  (or is that still tied to the base-system?)
> 
> (I am very interested in subversion, but it is still
> something I need to learn more about...)
> 

I haven't been following this too closely, so forgive me if this has 
been mentioned. Does Subversion support any type of transaction based 
committing?

One of the frequent problems with CVS is when someone grabs source while 
someone is in the middle of a large or multi-part commit.

-- 
Ryan Sommers
ryans at gamersimpact.com