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Subversion Hits Alpha

Posted by timothy on from the bang-on-it-if-that's-your-thing dept.

C. Michael Pilato writes: "This overheard while eavesdropping on announce@subversion.tigris.org: Gentle coders, The ever-growing cadre of Subversion developers is proud to announce the release of Subversion 'Alpha' (0.14.0). Since we became self-hosting eleven months ago, we've gone through ten milestones. This milestone, however, is the one we've always been working towards; it's a freeze on major features for our 1.0 release. From here out, it's mostly bug-fixing. We hope this announcement will lead to more widespread testing; we welcome people to try Subversion and report their experiences on our development list and issue tracker." Subversion, a source control system akin to CVS, has been in the works for a couple of years now.

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  1. why does subversion exist? by The+Rogue86 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    perhaps i am just a bit dumb but wouldnt it make more sense to have them join up with CVS and bring their code together to form a better service. this would also have the added advantage of making life easyer for those of us who do weekly (daily?) builds of our alpha/beta software by placing all the code in the same 'place'. this service seems to be redundant and will probably not stay up to date with CVS or else CVS will not stay current with it either way it doesnt seem to make sense IMO

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  2. Re:In 20 words or less. by Fweeky · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Versioning of filenames (and other metadata) so you can svn mv something, cheap branching/tagging, binary diffs, and atomic commits.

  3. CVS isn't being developed by mgkimsal2 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    his service seems to be redundant and will probably not stay up to date with CVS or else CVS will not stay current with it either way it doesnt seem to make sense IMO

    Having adopted CVS for most projects in the past couple years, I beat my head against the wall with many, imo, stupid issues with CVS. I assume that you don't use CVS, or you would be familiar with the fact that CVS pretty much isn't maintained/extended anymore. What's there is there, and has been *mostly* unchanged for years. There may have been a few patches here and there, but if it was being upgraded/extended, the issues that are 'stupid' now (diretories, permissions, etc) would have been fixed years ago.

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