Why Subversion does not suck

Re:Why Subversion does not suck by wickedchicken on Monday August 13, 2012 @05:14AM (#4375067)

"it's radical because it's really easy to use."

Subversion is especially easy to use if you have to go through an HTTP proxy which doesn't forward WebDAV requests.

Another reason I love Subversion is that it remembers what revision I started a branch at. Could you imagine using a VCS which didn't do that? You'd have to write down the branch number somewhere and manually create a forward patch list anytime you wanted to merge.

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Re:Why Subversion does not suck by wbond on Monday August 13, 2012 @07:32AM (#4375336)

Old versions of Subversion required you to remember the revision, but since 2009 and version 1.6, that is no longer the case.

A modern SVN workflow can easily look like this:

  svn co https://svn.example.com/myproject/trunk .
  svn copy . ^/branches/feature_branch -m 'Created feature branch'
  svn switch ^/branches/feature_branch
  svn ci -m 'Added foo baz'
  svn switch ^/trunk
  svn merge ^/branches/feature_branch .
  svn rm ^/branches/feature_branch -m 'Closed feature branch'

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