On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 14:00:18 +0100 Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
Yes, that's right. But CVS is easy to install, even on old server hardware. SVN needs Apache2 and WebDAV and Bazaar is written in Python.
That isn't true. Subversion does NOT need Apache and webdav. You can run it also via SSH (svn+ssh://...) or directly via svnserve (svn://...).
Ok, that's a new info for me. I only use the client from time to time. I've tried to install a svn server and the only thing I could find (a few years ago) was something like this (debian package):
libapache2-svn - Subversion server modules for Apache
I think I'll give it a try on my server at home....
So, the easiest solution would be to setup pubkey authentication which is more secure and much more convenient (no password typing at all).
You are the second one you told me that. ssh-agent is already running, so I only have to read the manual how to add my key.
Alternatively, what do you think about the idea of shortened labels suggested by Jeff. I would prefer this over icons because it would work always. Icons tend to be installed in the wrong place, conflict with the user's icon theme or whatever ;-).
That's your decision. I would prefer icons with hover text, but shortened labels are OK. Is there a way to cut off the strings depending on the space needed? I think the mentioned "single character" labels are to hard....