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  • From: Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] SMGL as GNU-certified Free(R)(TM) Distro?
  • Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 21:00:12 +0100

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 02:39:16PM -0500, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> I can vouch for the fact that it's not worse in Subversion than it is in
> Perforce, but I would do better: I'll try to model my typical SMGL
> workflow with Subversion and see what's missing.

Well, I'm using subversion for some of my own projects, and so far the
best I can say is that subversion branches suck. They are dead easy to
create, but almost impossible to use except for one-shot branches or
straight branch-develop-merge workflow. They just don't work for
repeated merges back and forth between branches.

> Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> >
> >
> > No, the key objection to Subversion is that its branches don't remember
> > merges between each other, which causes conflicts on repeated merges,
> > which we basically do once every few minutes in p4.
> >
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