On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 04:06:01PM -0700, David Landry wrote:
> What makes svn so much more preferable to cvs?  I can understand
> wanting to have svn for versioning binary files, but what benefits are
> there for text files?

- svn revert
- never have to do update -dP
- symlinks
- renaming directories and files
- execute bit
- diff format defaults to unified
- faster diff, status, etc. in most cases

I could go on for a while.

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