[PLUG] subversion...

Eric Wilhelm scratchcomputing at gmail.com
Wed Jul 11 22:54:56 UTC 2007


# from alan
# on Wednesday 11 July 2007 03:20 pm:

>The other major problem with Subversion is that if you add something
> to the repository by mistake, you are pretty much stuck with it
> without drastic measures.  They assume if you do something, you meant
> to do it and there is no going back without manual rebuilding of the
> repository.

That is mostly by-design.  If you want linear, centralized version 
control with immutable commits, then subversion is the way to go.  If 
you want something else, well...

Distributed teams don't tend to get along with subversion all that well, 
but it is designed around a centralized model.  Note that git, darcs, 
etc are all distributed systems.  If your developers are not all in the 
same office/company, subversion is probably not the thing.  That said, 
a lot of Perl projects get along quite well with subversion plus svk.

--Eric
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