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Indeed. SVN is far from the worst source control system out there, and even as we move on to better once, it's pointedly the system that got a lot of coders in
by Semiapies 15y ago
Indeed. SVN is far from the worst source control system out there, and even as we move on to better once, it's pointedly the system that got a lot of coders into using source control.
- JoshTriplett 15y agoI certainly like SVN's status as a "better CVS", and from that perspective they succeeded nicely. If nothing else, SVN has a much saner repository structure that makes it possible to migrate to a modern version control system, whereas the tools for migrating a CVS repository involve huge pain and sometimes guesswork, depending on how heavily people manually hacked the repo's RCS files and how deeply they used CVS's awful branching.
- nupark2 15y agoIt's not even a given that git is better than subversion for most non-OSS centralized development use cases.