On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 16:33, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Sandro Tosi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 15:52, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > I've said several times now that I would welcome *any* modern VCS >> > that doesn't have the problems of Subversion. >> >> and I'm saying that you're not using svn because you already know >> bzr and you don't want to learn svn, period. > > On what do you base that assertion? I've already told you it's wrong, > and entirely contradictory with what I have said.
On the fact that you are still NOT using it! >> > If you are going to wilfully misrepresent my position, this >> > discussion isn't really going anywhere. >> >> Me? I've asked a simple question, and you didn't answer it... what >> were your negative experiences with svn+branches? > > A merge in Subversion has no automatic conflict resolution. Modern VCS > tools have this feature. > > A merge in Subversion has no way of knowing whether a change being > merged in has already been applied. Modern VCS tools will recognise > already-applied changes without fuss. > > A merge in subversion is *slow*, many times slower than with any > modern VCS I've used. > > Any operation on branches in Subversion affects the central > repository, and thus all users of the repository. Modern distributed > VCSes allow creation of branches that only exist locally, making > branching and merging cheap, quick, and unobtrusive. > > That's some of the issues; there are others. > > These are facts of my experience with Subversion. Please stop acting > as though they don't exist. Now you told them! you never done this before. Of course all of them[1] are trapped in hell using svn... god only know how they can only do a simple change without dying... Maybe because there are different tools for different usages? and maybe your "workflow" must be changes & adapted case by case? [1] http://subversion.tigris.org/testimonials.html#open-source-projects-using-svn -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi _______________________________________________ Reportbug-maint mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/reportbug-maint
