Subversions Relevance

Subversions Relevance

Posted Jan 19, 2009 21:22 UTC (Mon) by henning (subscriber, #13406)
In reply to: Subversions Relevance by alex
Parent article: GNOME considers DVCS choices

I don't think that SVN was only a stop gap measure. Its way more better then CVS, its just works and its easy to use. Git its much more powerful, but it makes also easier to shot yourself in the foot. If you want to work with peoples that only develop in their spare time then svn helps to lower the barrier to participate. And If you need to motivate other developers to use a RCS effectivly in their daily routine, then you also don't want to make their life harder then necessary.

And as already noted in the comments, most projects (e.g. inhouse, only a few developers) don't need a DVCS. I don't consider the projects i work ATM as backwards, only because "we still use SVN". IMHO the quality of a project has nothing really to do with the flavour of RCS they use.

SVN 1.0 (released in febr. 2004) was more or less a better CVS. But the svn developers don't stopped there, 1.5.x has e.g. now a much more advanced merge tracking, they improved the repository disk layout, added changeset tagging and much more things.

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