[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] libswscale into the FFmpeg SVN repo

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 10:52:03PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 04, 2009 at 08:44:51PM +0200, Christian Iversen wrote:
> [...]
> >>> I've never used CVS a lot - what kind of support did it have for moving 
> >>> stuff between reposes?
> >> you just copy the rcs files on the server, needs an account or someone
> >> with an account ...
> >> what was missing was that this didnt keep track of where the file 
> >> previously
> >> was ...
> >
> > Oh, like that. Yes, that was pretty neat. It's still perfectly possible 
> > with SVN though.
> 
> only as long as inside the same repo, cvs never had this limitation, a
> rcs file form one repo can be copied to another like just copying it within a
> repo

And then that file magically appears in checkouts from dates before you
moved the file, great idea.

Per-file revision control is not a good idea.  What you want to version
is the whole repository.

Diego