subversion 1.0 is released

subversion 1.0 is released

Posted Feb 24, 2004 1:06 UTC (Tue) by piman (subscriber, #8957)
In reply to: subversion 1.0 is released by dh
Parent article: subversion 1.0 is released

In addition to what ncm mentioned, svn supports versioned directories, versioned metadata, and binary diffs (particularly important for one of my projects that has a lot of images and music). In addition, SVN's output is generally much nicer than CVS (more readable svn status output, diff -u by default, and so on).

As for setting up a server -- what server? I use Subversion over SSH and didn't have to set up a single new daemon or background process (I use suEXEC + ViewCVS, which supports SVN, to allow anonymous downloads). If you don't want to bother with Apache 2 and DAV, you can use svnserve which is roughly equivalent to CVS's pserver functionality. Or, you could just use DAV, which is probably the most secure option.

This isn't to trash Arch - I have a friend that swears by it, and a lot of free software projects like Rhythmbox seem to be doing great with it - but Subversion has many advantages over CVS, and doesn't have nearly the documentation and usability problems Arch has.

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