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Re:We are currently taking a DDoS attack and are working to ... by zevyoura on Saturday March 23, 2013 @10:33PM (#5430825)
You have to maintain a full copy of the file tree locally per branch, it's a pain that gets worse as your project size grows. With git, switching between branches is near instantaneous.
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Re:We are currently taking a DDoS attack and are working to ... by hp50g on Sunday March 24, 2013 @04:33AM (#5431481)
It is in svn as well (200mb wc switch = 4 seconds).
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Re:We are currently taking a DDoS attack and are working to ... by banachtarski on Sunday March 24, 2013 @06:13PM (#5434004)
sorry but that is a very long time. Branching is something I do dozens, if not hundreds, of times a day (creating, checking out, deleting, etc).

svn doesn't fit the sane modern workflow and everything it does can be done by git in a less painful manner. I think the only use case I can think of for svn is a very binary heavy repo that needs global locking.

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Re:We are currently taking a DDoS attack and are working to ... by zevyoura on Sunday March 24, 2013 @05:01AM (#5431519)
I worked in an environment with a significantly larger repository, and svn switches were a constant source of frustration.
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