[clue-tech] has anyone use Subversion and if so, comments ?

[Matt Thompson]

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 23:24 -0700, J. Joseph Benavidez wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 22:10 -0700, Gus Salavatore Calabrese wrote:
> > I have heard that Subversion is intended to be a better replacement
> > for CVS.
> > 
> > Gus
> 
> I had used CVS for 7 years and switched to svn for my last couple jobs,
> so I've used svn for the last year and a half or so. 
> 
> Subversion just seems to flow better, I think. Some highlights:
> - recursion is assumed for commands (eg useful for adding new files)
> - there's an svn mv command, so, as in our case, we don't fear the
> possibility of rearranging files and/or directories (and that really
> helps for us java programmers when we need to change package
> hierarchies)
> - svnmerge[1] is a nice tool for keeping track of merges
> - there's a great online book[2] available
> - if you're familiar with cvsweb, there's an svnweb equivalent
>   that looks the same
> 
> Alas, I had fallen in love with tkcvs for CVS, but there's no subversion
> equivalent. I haven't found a gui that's as satisfying, but then I don't
> spend much time looking because I don't mind the command line.

I'm pretty sure that the latest version of tkCVS is actually a tkSVN now
(tkCVS 8 or so, began SVN support).  Try and see...

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