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Subversion 1.8 Released But Will You Still Use Git?
darthcamaro writes "Remember back in the day when we all used CVS? Then we moved to SVN (subversion) but in the last three yrs or so everyone and their brother seems to have moved to Git, right? Well truth is Subversion is still going strong and just released version 1.8. While Git is still faster for some things, Greg Stein, the former chair of the Apache Software Foundation, figures SVN is better than Git at lots of things. From the article: '"With Subversion, you can have a 1T repository and check out just a small portion of it, The developers don't need full copies," Stein explained. "Git shops typically have many, smaller repositories, while svn shops typically have a single repository, which eases administration, backup, etc."'"
Major new features of 1.8 include switching to a new metadata storage engine by default instead of using Berkeley DB, first-class renames (instead of the CVS-era holdover of deleting and recreating with a new name) which will make merges involving renamed files saner, and a slightly simplified branch merging interface.
short and simply, yes. If Linus says so, we obey.
Who doesn't store their DVD collection in source control?
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git commit -m "Fixed that for you!"
Pfft. I've been using Github for decades before I started using github.
Perforce.
Only for George Lucas Star Wars revisions...
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That guy's misuse of SVN is a concern, but far more disturbing is the fact that he seems to be orking cows in the workplace.
Really?!
He said what he said.