Using another version control (e.g. Subversion)

Can Foswiki use other version control systems than cvs (e.g. SVN, GIT)?

Is there a ducumented way to access these other systems?

I heard about "subversive.pm". How can it be used?

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As it is released, Foswiki only supports RCS. However it is reasonably straightforward to plug in any other revision control system that maintains linear per-file revision numbers, such as CVS. The interface module simply execs the relevant command-line programs, using commands specified in the RCS section of Foswiki.spec. You can modify these commands using configure.

Subversion is harder, because there is a single revision number for the whole repository. Subversive was the start of a work to make that sort of scheme supportable, but I never finished it.

Most interest at the moment is focused in plugging in more efficient store representations, such as databases. Such stores require a closer level of integration than the command-line version control modules, and as yet none of these experiments has been publicly released.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 19 Jan 2009