julianf is trying to prepare a presentation to business users of svn,
with the title "The future of merging", for the svn conference in Berlin
on 10-13 June.
/me wonders what are the main issues, concerns and developments for svn
merging.
* "True Renames" - properly merging renames. This is the Big One.
* Speed - e.g. most merges don't do much and so should be nearly
instant.
* Conflicts (especially tree conflicts) - detection, and more
automatic resolution
* Reflective/cyclic merges
* How WC-NG will help.
- WC support for true renames
- facilitate further development
- client-side speed
I can't say that any of these are "coming soon", except WC-NG.
/me looks at hwright's and cmpilato's customer feedback
<http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/notes/feedback/>
That's useful, and really makes me realize how important this stuff is.
Any other suggestions of what I should say?
- Julian
