suggestions for CVS use

Erik Price eprice at ptc.com
Thu May 8 07:26:19 EDT 2003


pll at lanminds.com wrote:
>   +> Maybe I can ask my sysadmin to think about installing it, if
>   +> Subversion is really a lot nicer -- but I kind of doubt it
>   +> because IIRC it'd require changes to be made to the webserver.
> 
> This is only true if you want to use Apache as the network layer.  
> You can use svn from local disk, or via a tunnel such as rsh or ssh 
> without using the APR (Apache Portable Runtime) engine for the 
> network transport.
> 
> The configuration changes required to Apache are minimal, however, 
> they do require Apache 2.x.  Also, there is nothing preventing you 
> from installing Apache 2.x specifically and only for the use of 
> subversion along side of a previously installed 1.x server.

I think I'll try it locally on my Mac for now and play with it.  It 
sounds pretty awesome.  My sysadmin wants to wait for a "stable" 
announcement for now, which is fine by me.

Thanks for the thoughts on CVS and SVN everyone.


Erik




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