At Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:06:56 +0200, Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>
wrote:
Subject: Re: git copies of cvs modules available
>
> On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Curt Sampson wrote:
> > You may want to have a look at svk; that improved several areas of
> > Subversion use for non-committers for me.
>
> I used to be an advocate of svk, because it had decent
> support for distributed use, and decent support for
> merging. However, it's no longer maintained (see
> <http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/svk-devel/2009-May/001224.html>),
The most interesting and really the most relevant part of that message
(to this part of this thread) is the following sentence:
However using Subversion's filesystem as SVK's backend has
become one of SVK's primary technical issues, as we found it to be
inadequate as a storage backend for more complicated merges, which
require a lot of traversal.
The author goes on to suggest that far superior distributed VCS tools,
designed and built from the ground up, are now available.
Perhaps SVK was a fine tool for users forced to use SVN, but I think SVN
was always the wrong answer to the question. :-)
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Greg A. Woods
Planix, Inc.
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