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The Future of Subversion

Posted by kdawson on from the had-a-good-run dept.

sciurus0 writes "As the open source version control system Subversion nears its 1.5 release, one of its developers asks, what is the project's future? On the one hand, the number of public Subversion DAV servers is still growing quadratically. On the other hand, open source developers are increasingly switching to distributed version control systems like Git and Mercurial. Is there still a need for centralized version control in some environments, or is Linus Torvalds right that all who use it are 'ugly and stupid'?" The comments on the blog post have high S/N.

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  1. Dog penis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You are now thinking about the shape, color, and texture of a dog's penis.

    1. Re:Dog penis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Actually, I'm thinking about the time I came home early from a linux convention (total sausage fest) and found my girlfriend having sex with our dog. I did what anyone would do in that situation -- dropped trou and started jacking off. She called me a pervert.