Subversion at Google [LWN.net]

Subversion at Google

Posted Aug 14, 2006 9:29 UTC (Mon) by dion (subscriber, #2764)
Parent article: Google's project hosting service

Personally I think the more insteresting aspect of this is that Google has a lot of SVN developers on the payroll and that they are porting it to bigtable.

Could this mean that Google might be planning to move their internal source from Perforce to Subversion?

If they do move to svn then it would certainly be a great win for the svn project and I'm willing to bet that tons of features and fixes would flow from their use.

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Subversion at Google

Posted Aug 14, 2006 23:37 UTC (Mon) by gstein (guest, #3612) [Link]

Daniel Berlin has been working on the much-sought-after "merge tracking" feature for Subversion. So we've already made some very direct contributions. There are a couple other features that our guys are working on for Subversion 1.5. The ra_serf option in 1.4 was built by one of our interns (Justin Erenkrantz).

We need to figure out what portions of our Subversion/Bigtable implementation to move the public tree. All of us here are aware of the benefits to do that... it's just a matter of getting to it.