On Jul 3, 2006, at 1:04 PM, Aaron Mulder wrote:
I'm concerned that after all the work is done, it will be hard to merge the M2 changes from the branch to the trunk. SVN doesn't seem to have particularly good handing for merging changes that involve a lot of subsequent adds, deletes, moves, etc. When this stuff gets complex, more often than not, I've had to just whack the old tree and check out a fresh copy.
Perforce can handle all of that... and you can merge 90% of it with your eyes closed. You could have a branch of a branch with moves and adds and deletes in both, and P4 will be able to easily merge it all back to trunk with no problems.
I really, really, really wish that Subversion could handle this sort of branching and merging. In many ways SVN is still as bad as CVS when it comes to branch and merge.
:-( --jason
