Bram Cohen on great programmers

Re:Bram Cohen on great programmers by rglullis on Friday January 18, 2008 @10:08PM (#100731)

If you ever used/administered Subversion, it will help you understand.

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Re:Bram Cohen on great programmers by Nicolay77 on Friday January 18, 2008 @11:49PM (#100785)

Hehehe, I do use and administer a Subversion server, but to me the webdav choice was ugly.

Standalone svn:// server for the win.

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Re:Bram Cohen on great programmers by rams on Saturday January 19, 2008 @09:03AM (#100879)

Webdav is really one of the really ugly design decisions of the Subversion project. WebDAV was initially promoted by Rational - if you closely study WebDAV, it is easy to notice similarities with Clearcase. Looks like it was a political choice that was made to appeal to the managers in the IT departments - "Oh, Firewalls are not a problem, If your browser works, then the SVN should work ... blah blah". To be fair though some of the top committers will freely confess to a dislike for WebDAV.

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Re:Bram Cohen on great programmers by bayareaguy on Saturday January 19, 2008 @07:31AM (#100860)

Or svn+ssh://

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Re:Bram Cohen on great programmers by nostrademons on Saturday January 19, 2008 @11:42AM (#100905)

I always use svn+ssh. I had it under HTTPS initially (first using Apache, then Lighttpd), but it had a strong tendency to corrupt the working copy. Like daily. So I had to go in and delete .wcprops after every substantive check-in, which got really old really fast.

No problems with svn+ssh; seems to work fine.

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