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Re:What comes after Git by happyweasel on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @04:46AM (#31985875)
> it makes branches cheap and easy.

IMHO branching itself isn't expensive in Subversion, the problems arise when you merge (feature)branches back. If you branch off (for release branches) and then just selectively merge certain commits to that branch only if needed (the info being stored in svn:mergeinfo), I think its not that bad. I prefer branch-by-abstraction and trunk-based dev anyway, so here you go ;)

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Re:What comes after Git by COMMENT___ on Tuesday July 05, 2022 @06:10AM (#31986373)
Subversion has its branching and merging quirks, but it works and works well in most cases. Most of the usage problems can be solved by sticking to best practices and using up-to-date SVN client versions.
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