On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 01:39:58PM +0000, Paul Hammant wrote: > I think y'all should promote something to mainstream, even if the > performance isn't what you want it to be (for this feature). Better slow > IMO, than "does the wrong thing". If y'all promote neither it'll just > decay away from trunk and then risk never going live. As it doesn't affect > any existing part of Subversion its case for merging into trunk is stronger.
If a feature doesn't fit neatly into the design goals of Subversion then leaving it out is a better option. Shipping new features in a half-baked state implies an increased maintenance burden which we simply cannot afford. Creating a working copy in a hidden directory is a great prototype but not something to put into a release. > I cobbled together a "VCS Nirvana" blog entry some days ago - I don't see how posting a wishlist like benefits this discussion. Our goal is to get SVN 1.14 out the door with severely limited resources. It is not to write a new VCS or even compare SVN to anything else that's available and try to "catch up" somehow. Please stop doing that.
