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Re: Switching to Subversion
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Switching to Subversion |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:26:32 -0500 |
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> revisions were imported". But having these files in a single directory
> is not a *fundamental* property of FSFS; it can be easily changed, and
> in fact there's been already talk of doing it. It would be trivial.
I don't really want to get into this thread, but I'm interested in the
subject, so I'll just comment here. I don't really like Subversion and
would rather use some other tool for the following reason:
- The above comment is something I've often heard about Subversion: "this
or that internal feature is not prevented by SVN, it's just not supported
yet, but someone's already working on it". In contrast the other
competitors tend to suffer from a underdevelopped UI rather than
underdevelopped internals. The support for merging is an obvious case
in point. Basically Subversion's been UI-driven, with fundamental
features retrofitted afterwards. That is a design methodology which
doesn't always result in the cleanest and most robust result.
- Subversion has had more hours (and manhours) devoted to it than the sum of
its competitors, yet it still lacks the most commonly needed tool
(besides what CVS already offers): merge support.
- Subversion is a big and heavy piece of software, which I'm not very eager
to have to rely on.
- Subversion is strongly associated in my mind with Open Source as opposed
to Free Software.
So I'd rather use Arch, DaRCS, Mercurial, GIT, you name it.
Now, I'm sure the above has some misconceptions, because I haven't looked at
Subversion in a long time (I was following it fairly closely at its
beginning, before alternatives like Arch started to appear), but I believe
that the core ideas are still valid.
Stefan
- Re: Switching to Subversion, (continued)
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Romain Francoise, 2006/11/12
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Richard Stallman, 2006/11/12
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/11/12
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Sascha Wilde, 2006/11/12
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Miles Bader, 2006/11/12
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/11/12
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Miles Bader, 2006/11/12
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/11/12
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Miles Bader, 2006/11/12
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/11/12
- Re: Switching to Subversion,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/11/13
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Juanma Barranquero, 2006/11/13
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Stefan Monnier, 2006/11/13
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Bill Wohler, 2006/11/13
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Stefan Monnier, 2006/11/14
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Jari Aalto, 2006/11/27
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Miles Bader, 2006/11/27
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Jari Aalto, 2006/11/28
- Re: Switching to Subversion, Sascha Wilde, 2006/11/13
- Re: Switching to Subversion, David Kastrup, 2006/11/13