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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: ARSPR on March 20, 2008, 06:26:09 am

Title: CVS vs. SVN????
Post by: ARSPR on March 20, 2008, 06:26:09 am
Hi, as many of you should know I'm no coder at all, so maybe this is a very stupid thread. But maybe some new arriving coders can have the same doubt.  :wtf:

Till now I thought that the FS2 source code was stored in a CVS server in warpcore.org. Wiki (http://www.hard-light.net/wiki/index.php/Getting_the_FreeSpace2:_SCP_Source_Code) provides noob instructions to download it.

But I've seen in several threads, (as example this one (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,52738.0.html)), that you speak of SVN...

Looking in Wikipedia I've "learned" that SVN is more or less and advanced flavour of CVS repository (look what a FULLY TECHNICHAL knowledge I have  ;7). But:

Thanks for your patience answering questions like this one.  :lol:
Title: Re: CVS vs. SVN????
Post by: karajorma on March 20, 2008, 07:49:07 am
I was wondering when someone would ask. :lol:

We've already moved from CVS to SVN. For the non coders this will mean very little other than getting used to a new word. For us coders it's already proved to be a big improvement. :)

We didn't want to give out the details for SVN as we were still reorganising things internally. That's partially finished now and I had already planned to write a guide on how to use TortoiseSVN to check out the code same as I did for TortoiseCVS.
Title: Re: CVS vs. SVN????
Post by: Mars on March 20, 2008, 11:13:11 am
SVN commands are, as far as I know, easier than CVS

Glad it's being swithced.
Title: Re: CVS vs. SVN????
Post by: Cobra on March 20, 2008, 09:31:14 pm
Also, wouldn't it be possible to use TortoiseSVN to update builds? :nervous:
Title: Re: CVS vs. SVN????
Post by: portej05 on March 21, 2008, 10:01:19 am
We switched from our rudimentary versioning system at work to SVN... blew the minds of management! (having a directory full of crap1.cpp-crap100.cpp representing code versions was killing us all)
TortoiseSVN is really simple, and the shell interface works fairly well... but no really good VS2008 interface yet
Title: Re: CVS vs. SVN????
Post by: CmdKewin on March 23, 2008, 07:14:14 pm
Quote from: portej05 on March 21, 2008, 10:01:19 am
... but no really good VS2008 interface yet

AnkhSVN should do the trick. http://ankhsvn.open.collab.net/

Regards  :)