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Obviously Subversion is important from a historical perspective, there are so many repositories out there will need to be supported for some time, but it does s
by astrodust 13y ago
Obviously Subversion is important from a historical perspective, there are so many repositories out there will need to be supported for some time, but it does seem like a flawed enterprise to keep actively developing Subversion. Wouldn't that time be better spent on a platform that's viable, like git, Mercurial, or some other experimental platform that might make a big breakthrough?
Everyone's bailing on that project, including Subversion itself. Isn't that a sign you should, you know, move on?
- nknighthb 13y agoEven CVS is, sadly, still in use. Subversion, being far superior, is likely to itself remain in use in even more places well into the next decade. It'd be nice to avoid bitrot and see pain points further smoothed over.
- zimpenfish 13y agoI spent a month of my last contract writing wrappers to reimplement SCCS commands on top of SVN because that was the easiest way for them to migrate.
- TD-Linux 13y agoWe still use subversion for binary file tracking - specifically Altium files and the like. In thus case, we heavily use the locking feature. Git does not fit well when merging changes is nearly impossible. In addition, the local copy size for Git would be way too large.
- lmm 13y agoWould git-annex be a good fit for your use case?
- TD-Linux 13y agoI'd somehow missed this! Looks awesome. We already have started using git for some side projects that are public. Again, no central locking database, though I suppose we could use something out-of-band.
- astrodust 13y agoDoesn't Mercurial handle large binary diffs better?
- TD-Linux 13y agoLast I checked, you still needed plugins to handle locking though, which is unfortunate if you are dealing with nearly unmergeable files.
- gcr 13y agoApril fools!
- astrodust 13y agoThe joke's on them if they're not switching to something sane.
- taejo 13y agoI know of a huge, highly profitable financial services company that was very pleased to announce (internally) their successful migration from CVS to SVN, in 2011. There's no way they're ready to move on.