On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 12:42 PM <bryce.scho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > FWIW, I found the explanations in these two emails from the same thread to be > easier to understand as a user: > https://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2010-11/0408.shtml > https://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2010-11/0466.shtml > > This sounds like yet another UX flaw caused by the constraints of > subversion's characteristic "flexibility" afforded by its nearly-complete > agnosticism regarding repository branching and tagging structure. As I use > git more and more for all of my daily development, I continue to run into UX > problems like this that are made so much less helpful and more surprising, > all in the name of that ultimate "everything is just a sub-tree" flexibility. > I am coming to strongly believe that this design paradigm is SVN's fatal flaw > keeping it from being the best long-term centralized VCS competitor to git & > other DVCSes.
You are a decade late for that discussion. Enforcing other system's architecture on top of Subversion would break the very reasons people still use it.
