drbrain

Subversion: Not much better than CVS

    by drbrain

I don't see what I get out of SVN that CVS is missing. Changesets? big deal!

No built-in branch tracking ala p4's integrate. (Hidden away in the svnmerge add-on.)

Uses less-featureful diff (no -p, -b, -c, -i), and less-reliable diff3 (has given me bad merges).

Can't set default diff arguments ala CVS in a config file without writing a shell script.

Feels slower than CVS.

Can't get all the info for a ... [More] changeset with one command. (files changed, log, diff)

Still too fragile, I've experienced both working copy corruption and repo corruption, even in recent versions.

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