[Anthill] Subversion support for Anthill OS

[Jim Hague]

On 25-Feb-2004 Maciej Zawadzki wrote:
> Thanks Jim. Wow, that's a fair amount of work you did :)

Oh, it wasn't so much. Couple of evenings. I'm learning Subversion as well as
Anthill; I just hope I haven't misunderstood anything important. The obvious
missing bit is Win32 support for Subversion. This I won't be doing; I don't
have the necessary equipment/time/motivation.

Otherwise Subversion is much like CVS but there's less to do. Because of the
way Subversion handles branches and tagging (basically, the tree just gets
copied to a different part of the repository tree), it makes no sense (to me)
to handle building branches or tags by anything more complicated that a
separate build project with a different root. The only version you can
specify on a build is a particular repository revision number; dunno how
useful that'll be. There's no equivalent of 'cvs edit' that I can find, so
there's another thing you don't have to do. No complications like Perforce
views. And Subversion output was apparently designed to be easy to parse, even
if (like me) you stick to the human output rather than the optional XML.

Dammit, I must have missed something :-)

> We are in the process of testing Anthill OS 1.7 right now.  But, we will 
> add your changes in before releasing.

Good news. Thank you.

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Jim Hague - jim.hague at acm.org          Never trust a computer you can't lift.