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Operating Systems Linux Subversion Post 60571 by locustfurnace on Tuesday 18th of January 2005 11:13:50 PM
Old 01-19-2005
In my situation, I was using CVS for a friends manuscript. Seeing that she is new to GNU/Linux in general, and I had already convinced her to use Vim and LaTeX for writing out her story, I felt that CVS would have been much more easier for her to learn.
For her, she could examine her changes easily within KDE's built-in Cervisia option.
The commands are simpler using CVS. For example under CVS, to checkout a copy of your work, you would issue;

cvs -d ~/cvsroot checkout project-files

Under subversion it is not difficult, but just longer.

svn checkout file:///home/locustfurnace/subversion/trunk project-files

Another reason was that there are more available front-ends (including Win32) for accessing CVS than Subversion. Plus, there are some filters for LaTeX for handling CVS comments.

If I recall correctly, I was not particularly a fan of the revision numbering scheme. I think subversion incremented revisions on a whole numbering system, such as 1, 2, 3, 4 while I had the ability in CVS to use 1.1.1.2, 1.1.1.3, 1.1.1.4. If necessary.

It's usually the little things which become a deciding factor for myself in what way I plan to go when picking software. The same reasons why I decided to chose LaTeX over DOCBOOK or XML when writing out a novel.
As stated earlier, if your controlling your own project, and starting from scratch. I think Subversion may have more options for you. But if your collaborating on a project, then you should factor in how those others users will be accessing the repository, and what tools they are familiar with.
 

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svnversion(1)						      General Commands Manual						     svnversion(1)

NAME
svnversion - Produce a compact version number for a working copy. SYNOPSIS
svnversion [wc_path [trail_url]] OVERVIEW
Subversion is a version control system, which allows you to keep old versions of files and directories (usually source code), keep a log of who, when, and why changes occurred, etc., like CVS, RCS or SCCS. Subversion keeps a single copy of the master sources. This copy is called the source ``repository''; it contains all the information to permit extracting previous versions of those files at any time. For more information about the Subversion project, visit http://subversion.tigris.org. Documentation for Subversion and its tools, including detailed usage explanations of the svn, svnadmin, svnserve and svnlook programs, his- torical background, philosophical approaches and reasonings, etc., can be found at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/. Run `svnversion --help' to access the built-in tool documentation. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +--------------------+-----------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Availability | SUNWsvn | +--------------------+-----------------+ |Interface Stability | Volatile | +--------------------+-----------------+ NOTES
Source for Subversion is available on http://opensolaris.org. svnversion(1)
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