Kevin Ballard <kevin@xxxxxx> writes: > On Jul 17, 2008, at 9:05 AM, David Kastrup wrote: > >> How much have you worked with Subversion so far? I am doing quite a >> bit of work with it, and the do-everything-via-copying paradigm does >> not get in my hair. It actually means that I have to remember fewer >> commands. And it is pretty easy to understand. > > Sure, it's simpler, but the overhead in creating and using a branch is > much larger. I have to extract the URL from the repository (since > naturally I only have trunk checked out), Say something like svn info and then use cut&paste. > issue a command to copy by URL, then issue an `svn switch` command, > and then I have to remember that I have a switched repository. Huh? How is that different to remembering a switched branch? Anyway, one tends to check out different branches in different workdirs. > Switching between branches is a pain, especially if you have > uncommitted work. There's a reason I never bothered to use branches > when I used subversion. Looks like it. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
