[Biococoa-dev] Fwd: [Bioinformatics.Org] NEW FEATURE: Subversion (SVN) version control system for projects

[Charles Parnot]

svn is great. This is indeed nice news.

charles

On Feb 8, 2006, at 2:39 PM, Peter Schols wrote:

> Great news from bioinformatics.org!
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: root at primary.bioinformatics.org (Bioinformatics.Org Sysadmin)
>> Date: Wed 8 Feb 2006 19:47:53 GMT+01:00
>> To: peter.schols at bio.kuleuven.ac.be
>> Subject: [Bioinformatics.Org] NEW FEATURE: Subversion (SVN)  
>> version control system for projects
>>
>> (You were sent this message because you are an administrator of a  
>> project hosted, archived or listed at Bioinformatics.Org, or  
>> because you simply have a shell account on our servers.)
>>
>> Dear Bioinformatics.Org project administrator,
>>
>> We're pleased to announce another addition to the services offered  
>> to bioinformatic developers at Bioinformatics.Org.  Effective  
>> immediately, developers may use the Subversion (SVN) version  
>> control system on our servers.  Subversion was developed "to take  
>> over the CVS user base," according to the Subversion website.   
>> "Specifically, we're writing a new version control system that is  
>> very similar to CVS, but fixes many things that are broken."  Here  
>> are a few of the advantages of using Subversion over CVS (from the  
>> website):
>>
>> * Directories, renames, and file meta-data are versioned.
>>
>>     Lack of these features is one of the most common complaints  
>> against CVS.
>>     Subversion versions not only file contents and file existence,  
>> but also
>>     directories, copies, and renames. It also allows arbitrary  
>> metadata
>>     ("properties") to be versioned along with any file or  
>> directory, and
>>     provides a mechanism for versioning the `execute' permission  
>> flag on files.
>>
>> * Commits are truly atomic.
>>
>>     No part of a commit takes effect until the entire commit has  
>> succeeded.
>>     Revision numbers are per-commit, not per-file; log messages  
>> are attached
>>     to the revision, not stored redundantly as in CVS.
>>
>> * Versioning of symbolic links
>>
>>     Unix users can place symbolic links under version control. The  
>> links are
>>     recreated in Unix working copies, but not in win32 working  
>> copies.
>>
>> * Efficient handling of binary files
>>
>>     Subversion is equally efficient on binary as on text files,  
>> because it uses
>>     a binary diffing algorithm to transmit and store successive  
>> revisions.
>>
>> Subversion at Bioinformatics.Org makes use of svnserve over SSH  
>> for developer access (anonymous access uses ordinary svnserve).   
>> Instructions on using Subversion at BiO can be found here:
>>
>>     http://bioinformatics.org/docs/svn/
>>
>> We also have the WebSVN interface set up:
>>
>>     http://bioinformatics.org/websvn/
>>
>> If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to  
>> ask <sysadmins at bioinformatics.org>.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>    _  _
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>>    The Lab Rats
>>
>> Sent to peter.schols at bio.kuleuven.ac.be
>>
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