Avalon prepares for SVN Migration

I’ve got to admit that I’m a svn newbie. I started playing around with it a lot more yesterday and I like what I see. The biggest advantage to me personally is the fact that I can now make commits from behind my corporate firewall and proxy server. That will ease the process quite a bit since right now I have to wait to make commits from my laptop at home.

Of course, as with almost all things in Avalon, this decision was not without its controvery, particularly with respect to what should be transferred over and what should remain in CVS. Looks like we’ll be moving everything into SVN. Another subversion advantage is that older, out-dated code can be deleted from the main branch, but it doesn’t actually disappear forever. Instead, those interested in the code can still find it in the repository. It’s also easier to move things around in subversion, so we’ll finally be able to do some cleaning up that we’ve been meaning to do for a while.