[Laszlo-dev] A question for potential contributors

[Sean Wheller]

On Friday 06 January 2006 20:12, Jim Grandy wrote:
> So I guess I have two questions. First, whether anyone can set our  
> minds to rest regarding subversion and corrupt databases. 

A database is a database, all are open to corruption. However, my 
understanding is that the new file system based method provided by svn is 
less prone to problems than the Berkley DB. You could try the folder system. 
I have a number of svn databases in production using the new file system and 
I am very happy with them.

OK, I know you will have to start from scratch. So the question is, "Does 
anyone currently use the svn repo at changeset level, or is it just a tool 
for facilitate collaboration." I think you may find it is the later.

<evil-grin>Me being the newbie, could not care less about the anything but 
HEAD. If there is nothing valuable in the change set, svn dump, do a backup 
and let's start over.</evil-grin>

> And second,   
> if we can't reach an appropriate level of confidence with svn, how  
> would you feel about using p4?

Deciding to use a closed source tool is a slippery slope. I think you almost 
have to be fanatically religious about something like this. All open source 
or nothing. The other solution is perhaps to move away from the centralized 
model and use a distributed system like Bazaar. I think the later may not be 
an option, considering the learning curve.

If possible, I would like to use tools under a free license.

<thinking>Geez, I hope this trouble is not because of me.</thinking>

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