Andrew McNabb wrote: > 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
A few of my favorites: - atomic commits - fast branching and tagging - binary diffs in the repository -Hyrum (Full disclosure: I do a fair amount of Subversion hacking, so I might be biased. :) ) -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
