On 9/27/06, Vivek Khera <vivek at khera.org> wrote:
>
> On Sep 27, 2006, at 12:53 PM, Christopher Browne wrote:
>
> > That being said, the recent outage of gBorg represents something where
> > using a distributed SCM (Git, Darcs, Mercurial, ...) would have turned
> > the outage into a minor inconvenience.  That is so because
> > individuals'
>
> My understanding is that the svk software which layers on top of svn
> provides such a distributed repository system, but I am not that
> familiar with it.  If that's the only problem we're solving by moving
> from CVS, then I don't think it is worth the trouble.
>

svk does indeed use svn as a backend. Using svn for the server and svk
when you need it on the client for off-line or distributed dev is a
pretty decent combo. Most of the time I prefer to use just svn though.

-bob