On Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 11:39 AM Johnny Billquist <b...@update.uu.se> wrote:
> > What exactly is a "true branch"? Subversion does have branches, they > > are fast and work quite well. > > Not really. Subversion have copies. There are differences. One being > that it's very hard to even find out what "branches" exists in Subversion. > > > Somebody mentioned lack of tags, well Subversion uses branches, they > > are essentially the same thing. > > Same copy as above. Subversion only have copies, and tries to make > everything fit this, which isn't as good as the Subversion people try to > claim. Also, Subversion actually have a couple of tags, but they are > special cases, and you cannot create your own. > OK can you elaborate a bit more in detail? What do you think is the difference between "true branches" and "copies"? With Subversion, when you create a branch on a server, it doesn't make a physical copy of every single file, it creates CopyOnWrite, so it's fast and doesn't take up much space. So where is the problem? Also I don't understand your comment - 'it's very hard to even find out what "branches" exists in Subversion.' This is not true, it's up to you how to organize your branches, but most people have a subfolder called "branches" and you can easily list all branches there.
