Ben Collins-Sussman

Subversion: Much better than CVS

  by Ben Collins-Sussman

This is a response to drbrain's review, because I think he's confused about a number of issues.

* Merge-tracking (a la p4 integrate) is coming in svn 1.5, and is already mostly working on the trunk code. You can test drive it today.

* 'svn diff' now natively supports -u, -b, -w, and other things.

* You *can* set the default diff arguments in your ~/.subversion/config file.

* "Feels" slower? Some commands are ... [More] slower, some are much faster. It's all about amortizing total speed over various commands. Try timing 'svn diff' vs. 'cvs diff'. (Hint: one hits the network, one doesn't.)

* 'svn log -v -r123' tells you everything about one changeset.

* repo corruption? I don't buy it. working copy corruption has happened before though, so yes, that needs some work.
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