This is fine as long as you’re in the office, but it fails the moment you’re traveling or your connection to the server fails for whatever reason. The caveat is that this always requires server round-trips, which is okay as long as you’re in a high availability environment with a fast server. Subversion understands this perfectly well, and the mechanism for doing so is branches.
When I’m working on something complex, there are a lot of points where I want to freeze frame without actually telling the world about my work. However, a lot of those revisions are not really meant for public consumption. It can be a solution, but the problems reach a bit beyond that.įundamentally, a commit creates a revision, and a revision is something we want as part of the permanent record of a file. I don’t want to compare to git or explain why it fixes the problems, because that has the effect of lensing the actual problems and additionally the problem of implying that distributed version control is the solution. It’s important to understand what the flaws are, and in particular I want to discuss them without advocating for any alternative. A perfect product is a product no one uses, after all. And like any real world production system, it has a lot of flaws in nearly every respect. Nevermind the hyperbole, SVN is good by practically any real world measure.
It’s a mature, well understood system that has been and continues to be used in a vast variety of production projects, open and closed source, across widely divergent team sizes and workflows.
#Create branch smartsvn Patch
SVN is a long time stalwart as version control systems go, created to patch up the idiocies of CVS. This post is motivated in part by Richard Fine’s post, but it’s a response to a general trend and not his entry specifically.
#Create branch smartsvn series
I myself wrote a series of posts on the subject, but I skipped over the reasons WHY you might want to switch away from Subversion. Recently there’s a lot of momentum behind moving away from Subversion to a distributed system, like git or Mercurial. I’ve used Subversion for a long time, even CVS before that.
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