Subversion considers its future [LWN.net]

Subversion considers its future

Posted Apr 30, 2008 22:58 UTC (Wed) by cpeterso (guest, #305)
Parent article: Subversion considers its future

Considering CVS's longevity, I expect SVN to have a healthy (if boring?) life ahead for large
corporate projects. Many big companies are stuck with expensive Perforce licenses but like the
centralized server architecture (for admin and backup). SVN is a good alternative for them.
The SVN team should focus on making it an even better alternative. SVN and git solve different
problems and I hope the SVN team is not derailed by chasing the shiny new world of DVCS.

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Subversion considers its future

Posted May 1, 2008 0:24 UTC (Thu) by dbnichol (subscriber, #39622) [Link]

Yeah, I'm sure subversion will live on in corporations for a long time. Today I overheard two
of my fellow employees (we're not programmers) arguing whether the content for their project
should be kept in CVS or _RCS_! I swallowed down the vomit and decided not to waste my time
cluing them in on the wonders of the 21st century.

Subversion considers its future

Posted May 1, 2008 8:24 UTC (Thu) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

I've just managed to convert my workplace from Team Coherence (an 
obscure, locking-not-merging, revision control system to subversion :-). 
It took me six months to convince my co-workers that it would be a good 
idea. Git, bzr or mercurial would have taken much longer, especially 
since I don't actually understand myself how the interaction between 
developers on a team working towards a common release really works. At 
least, not without someone blessed to produce the final source tree and 
thus having to go through all patches.

Subversion considers its future

Posted May 1, 2008 9:30 UTC (Thu) by joib (guest, #8541) [Link]

You just designate one repo as the canonical one, and tell everyone to push their changes
there if they want their code to be part of the release. The canonical repo is thus the
equivalent of THE repo in a centralized VCS like subversion.

Subversion considers its future

Posted May 1, 2008 12:59 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

At least they're debating actual VCSes. One place I worked a few years ago 
had all its source code `version controlled' by, er, copying the tree and 
tarring it up every night. (No gzip: just tar. They didn't have enough 
clue to know about gzip.)

They had dozens of disks full of years of nightly uncompressed tarballs...