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Third time? SVN was a big improvement over CVS. CVS was full of UX blunders, kind of like Git compared to something with good UX.
by ahartmetz 2y ago
Third time? SVN was a big improvement over CVS. CVS was full of UX blunders, kind of like Git compared to something with good UX.
- sunshowers 2y agoDid the Subversion creators have a lot of prior experience working on CVS?
- steveklabnik 2y agoYes: https://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.intro.whatis.html#svn.intro.history https://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.intro.whatis.html#sv... > In February 2000, they contacted Karl Fogel, the author of Open Source Development with CVS (Coriolis, 1999), and asked if he'd like to work on this new project. Coincidentally, at the time Karl was already discussing a design for a new version control system with his friend Jim Blandy. In 1995, the two had started Cyclic Software, a company providing CVS support contracts, and although they later sold the business, they still used CVS every day at their jobs You may recognize Jim as one of the authors of Programming Rust.
- sunshowers 2y agooh neat!
- rob74 2y ago...and don't ask about the first version control tool I had the "pleasure" of using, M$'s Visual SourceSafe o_O
- ahartmetz 2y agoFrom what I've heard, it was more of a version information disposal system.