Timo Sirainen wrote:
I've also been thinking about if I should switch from CVS to Darcs. It seems to be exactly the kind of reversion control tool I had wanted to use. Anyone have comments for or against it? I'd still have read-only CVS repository generated from it, although I couldn't yet find a way to do it.
I cannot speak for or against Darcs (since I haven't used it), but I can say that Subversion is my preferred version control system:
http://subversion.tigris.orgalong with a third party tool svk:
http://svk.elixus.org/which make mirroring multiple remote projects very easy as well as vastly simplifying branch management and merging. It is also possible to use VCP (an opensource tool from the Perforce people) to copy from one version control system to another (and often back again). I use this to mirror a remote CVS repository (or three) using svk; it could also be used to create a readonly CVS mirror of a Subversion repository. The Subversion project cvs2svn also does a very nice job of converting full cvs history into a Subversion database (branches and tags).
However, I'm primarily a _consumer_ of these remote resources, not a _producer_. Consequently, my most important feature is the ability to maintain a local branch for my personal patches (some of which I then submit to the original project), as well as the ability to merge upstream changes into my mirrored repository.
You, however, are a _producer_, in that you are the primary (only?) developer of dovecot, so your needs are probably very different. From a casual reading of the Darcs website, it seems to be focused on distributed development (multiple developers) without an authoritative repository. Perhaps that's what you want to do; I cannot say.
John
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