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On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 08:56, John Wells wrote:
> I'm in a position to decide on a versioning control system for our
> company's dev team.  Naturally, my first thought was CVS, but I've seen a
> few blips for Subversion (subversion.tigris.org) and must say I like some
&gt; of the features (<a  rel="nofollow" href="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/html-chunk/ch01s03.html";>http://svnbook.red-bean.com/html-chunk/ch01s03.html</a>).

&gt; Anyone out there using Subversion?  What's your experience regarding
&gt; stability and usefulness?  Any caveats or kudos?

	I've not used it, but it's been self-hosting for over a year now. 
That's got to be a testimony, but see below.

	Caveat: any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
a rigged demo ;-)

	As I recall the story, Linus wanted a specific feature that didn't
exist in ANY version control system at the time, and I don't know if
I'll be able to explain it properly or not, but here goes:

	given a kernel driver/feature/project,
	fork it: one branch shows up in the &quot;standard&quot; kernel
	the other one is developed
	continue accepting patches for both branches
	when the &quot;new&quot; branch is &quot;ready&quot;, logically swap the
	branches, then drop the &quot;old&quot; one.

or something like that.  The developer of BitKeeper, what's-his-name was
visiting Linus and the began a discussion that resulted in the
development of BitKeeper, BitMover (the company), and ultimatly, fights
between what's-his-name and most of the linux kernel community :-(.

	The main problem(s) with CVS is that it doesn't understand file
meta-information.  For example, you can't rename a file.  Well, you can,
but you must know what you're doing.  Renaming a directory is even
harder.  But, it'll handle file changes like a champ.

	Have I rambled enough?  Sorry.

	Caveat Emptor!

	Up the Universe!

-- 
kernel, n.: A part of an operating system that preserves the
medieval traditions of sorcery and black art.

Danny


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