Subversion Rules(tm)

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I've been using Subversion over the last month or so, and I've really been liking it. It's replaced CVS for projects that I'm currently working on. Up until fairly recently, it wasn't appealing to my single-developer use of it (needing Apache / WebDAV, BerkeleyDB doesn't particularly float my boat), but now it's possible to get Subversion installable packages from CodingMonkeys, and then create local repositories using filesystem-based storage. For a CVS user, it's a pretty easy switch over. It has much of the same mental model as CVS (as opposed to something like BitKeeper or GNU Arch), which can be good or bad depending on your opinions of the CVS model. There's tons of useful documentation at svnbook.org.

08:11 PM, 05 Apr 2005 by Mark Dalrymple Permalink

Agreed

I've been using Subversion for about 6-8 months for my personal projects, including as a document store for technical specs and such. So far I love it. The new way of branching/tagging is great. Atomic commits are a godsend. And with the addition of fsfs it seems far more stable then before. Add in trac (http://www.edgewall.com/trac/) and you have an awesome combo for handling most projects. Now if I could just get my company on board to switch from cvs/bugzilla to subversion/trac using those nifty conversion tools I'd be one happy developer

by Jeremy Collins on 04/06/05

svnbook.org link broken

Just a minor note—the link to svnbook.org is broken. The good news is that I found that out because I remembered that you had a link to the Subversion guide, but forgot what it was, proving the Borkware Miniblog to be an essential resource.

by Evan DiBiase on 04/10/05

Oops!

Sorry about that. It be fixed.

by Mark Dalrymple on 04/11/05

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