[thelist] CVS server specs

Dan McCullough dan.mccullough at gmail.com
Wed Sep 14 13:07:50 CDT 2005


Just to add, I switched from CVS to SVN, SVN server is on Linux and
our dev apps are on Windows, very very seamless and all of my
developers have been extremely happy with it.

On 9/14/05, Judah McAuley <judah at wiredotter.com> wrote:
> Hi Paul, before you install CVS, I'd suggest you take a look at
> Subversion (SVN). Its intended to be a more modern version of CVS that
> keeps most of the good stuff (and the syntax) of CVS while cleaning up
> some cruft and glossing over some rather glaring oversights in CVS. For
> instance, in CVS you cannot move a file. You have to delete it from one
> place and add it in another area, thus killing off its history when you
> look at it in the new area. SVN has a move command.
> 
> SVN does run under XP although I've only implemented it under Linux. SVN
> also has some good gui apps written for it under Windows, such as
> TortoiseSVN.
> 
> Subversion can be found at: http://subversion.tigris.org
> 
> As for beefiness of the machine, I think that file system performance is
> going to be the biggest issue. So have a good hd setup with fast drives
> and keep it defragged will likely be the biggest performance indicator.
> 
> Cheers,
> Judah
> 
> 
> Paul Bennett wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I've been put 'in charge' of setting up a CVS server to allow us to
> > have a code repository for a medium sized government site.
> >
> > The code and content is about 1.6 - 2GB in total. What I need to know
> > is what quality of machine we'll need to run CVS.
> >
> > 1. We'll likely be using a leased desktop machine (due to internal
> > requirements) to host the code and the software. Will this be grunty
> > enough? (2Ghz 512Mb RAM 40Gb HDD)
> >
> > 2. Do open source CVS solutions run only on *Nix boxes? Our pcs come
> > installed with XP and it will be a 'challenge' to allow IT to let me
> > blow the OS away to install a *nix distro. That being said, I've also
> > never actually administered a *nix server.....
> >
> > Any advice welcome. Please :) Paul
> 
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