Lan Barnes wrote:
> Thanks, Matt, solid experience to share. I am forwarding it.
>
> My major gripe is the lack of true (data based) version labels.

Can't the "memo" for a version serve that purpose?

> Also, I've
> become quite fond of change sets, and can't remember if svn supports
> those. I tend to drop SW as soon as I decide it doesn't have the
> facilities I need.

Not sure what a changeset is.  Do you mean an easy way to find the
difference between 2 versions?  svn diff can do that for you.


> But svn is a godsend to web based OSS projects.

Why is svn great for *web* based projects?

> A buddy of mine worked in a commercial shop that used Svn, and he agrees
> that it's not ready for the enterprise. The lack of
> merge/branch/integration history was a real pain in the rump for him.

Not sure what you mean....every commit and every branch creation requires
creation of comments and history to go along with it.

> It also lacks (lacked?) a decent integration with Microsoft tools.

TortoiseSVN?

> I didn't
> even consider deploying it at my current company because I knew we'd have
> at least a couple of branches, and literally some sort of deployment every
> day. I wouldn't have time for anything else but Svn admin.

Creating a branch is easy in SVN.  Not sure what your problem is with
branches. Merging is bad in SVN but I heard they are working on that.

cs


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