Glad I am not using FreeBSD

Posted Aug 26, 2024 9:30 UTC (Mon) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)
In reply to: Glad I am not using FreeBSD by marcH
Parent article: FreeBSD considers Rust in the base system

Yeah, SVN made it very easy to branch (just copy, simple right?) but merging was a clusterf*ck. At one point they added "merge tracking" to keep track which revisions had been merged from where but it never worked well for me,

I think it was Linus in a discussion about Git noting that the one thing a revision control system really needed to be good at was merging and SVN failed that miserably.

git-svn was the only thing that made it usable for me. Then I could have local branches without dealing with the server.

Glad I am not using FreeBSD

Posted Aug 26, 2024 15:13 UTC (Mon) by marcH (subscriber, #57642) [Link]

I learned git with... git-svn the first time: purely because I was so sick of SVN (and not just the lack of branches).