Subversion considers its future [LWN.net]

Subversion considers its future

Posted May 1, 2008 8:24 UTC (Thu) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185)
In reply to: Subversion considers its future by dbnichol
Parent article: Subversion considers its future

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.

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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.