Re:How to Fail at SVN
by sapphirecat on Wednesday August 25, 2010 @01:33PM
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> By default in SVN, everyone is committing to the same - and indeed the master, de-facto, controlling, always perfect - branch. Trunk.
It's worse than that; svn asks you to maintain the trunk/tags/branches directory structure yourself, rather than including them as core concepts in the VCS itself(1). So, someone can commit an update to something under tags/ and svn won't even give out a warning, since it has no idea that tags/* are supposed to be write-once.
1) Looks like they added `svn branch`, sometime after the 1.4.x version I'm actually using.
It's worse than that; svn asks you to maintain the trunk/tags/branches directory structure yourself, rather than including them as core concepts in the VCS itself(1). So, someone can commit an update to something under tags/ and svn won't even give out a warning, since it has no idea that tags/* are supposed to be write-once.
1) Looks like they added `svn branch`, sometime after the 1.4.x version I'm actually using.