[OT] From svn to something else?

Fri Apr 29 14:23:36 EDT 2011

On 04/29/2011 12:01 PM, Hans Georg Schaathun wrote:
> <python.list at tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> : I'd say that one of the things SVN has going for it is that it's
> : the lingua-franca of VCSes, so just about everything (especially
> : the 3 big names mentioned in this thread: hg, bzr, git) can talk
> : to svn pretty uneventfully. As a matter of fact, last I checked,
> : Django is hosted in SVN, but most of the developers use DVCS
> : tools to check in/out from the main repository to their own local
> : hg/bzr/git repos, do their work locally (with the option to work
> : offline, branch/merge easily, etc), and then push changesets back
> : up when they have a patch they're happy with.
>> I am not sure I get the implications right. Are you suggesting that
> I could keep my svn server, switch to a DVCS client, and reap the
> benefits?

Yep...some are plugins while others are stock/native, but you can 
read your fill at
Git:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-svn.html
Mercurial:
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WorkingWithSubversion
Bazaar:
http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/plugins/en/svn-plugin.html
-tkc