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[Václav Šmilauer <eudoxos@xxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I would like to raise my concerns about svn, in particular its inability to 
intelligently handle moving files: it does so by deleting the old file and 
creating new one, which results in complete loss of history of that file.

Since there are going to be _big_ moves in yade's source tree (basically, I 
think, not a single file will be kept exactly where it is), we would 
effectively lose the whole history.

I read a few comparisons of revision control systems and it seems that 
bazaar-ng (http://bazaar-vcs.org/) generally wins. Its syntax is very 
similar to svn (replace svn by bzr) and there is a utility to migrate whole 
svn repository to bzr. Berlios.de doesn't support bzr natively, but it can 
operate over http for downloads and sftp for commits (not sure if 
svn.berlios.de could be used for that?!).

One more thing to consider, once we are in these changes, is to move away 
from berlios.de, since it has been down a few times - to e.g. launchpad.net, 
which supports bzr by default.

Thoughts on this?

Vaclav
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