[Gllug] subversion

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On Mon, 13 Dec 2004, Richard Jones mused:
> Subversion has some user advantages over CVS -- atomic commits spring
> to me -- but CVS beats it in terms of the fact that you can actually
> hand-edit the repository easily.

You can hand-edit the new fsfs storage backend (although it's tricky,
it *can* be done).

But in Subversion I've found much less need to do that, because
of the Perl Subversion interface. Most things I'd do with hand-hacking
can be done about as fast with a mess of Perl. (Emphasis on `mess'.)

> I'm currently investigating whether my future version control software
> will be Arch or DARCS (the favorite right now).  THOSE are a leap
> forwards.

Agreed. The biggest problem by far with arch now is that it makes the
hard and nearly impossible things easy and the easy things hard. i.e.,
someone needs to write a *lot* of wrappers to make doing operations
that are commonly done easier to do --- you shouldn't need to use
black magic commands to make the tea. :)

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