On 08.09.2004 21:43, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
...
The only known "disadvantage" compared to CVS (which will be eliminated
in the upcoming 1.1 version) is that you couldn't use subversion on a
NFS-share, but i wouldn't use a versioning-system via a NFS share.
Well, that would be a show stopper for me.
Why wouldn't it work with NFS?
It wouldn't be safe as subversion doesn't lock the repos-files.
If only a single user is using the repo than it doesn't is a problem.
But as you need write priviliges to read(!) the repo with the curreny
BDB version of the repo AFAIUTM(*) you may destory the repo just be
doing a concurrent "svn update".
BTW: does subversion store everything in plain text files?
No.
Current version uses a Berkeley-DB as backing store. Next version will
support another way called "FSFS" (File System. As in Subversion the
content of a repo is also called file system they used the double "file
system" in the name to get less confusion)
But that will also be a binary and "none human manipulatable" version.
That's something I absolutely want. I'd hate storing my sources
in binary dumps.
I don't see a problem with this.