Just to be clear, are you saying that svn lets you do check ins on a private branch when you are not connected to the network (and thus can't access the central repository)?
On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 7:30 PM, Mike Dewhirst <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/04/2013 12:36am, Bill Freeman wrote: > >> It is also possible to use a non-distribted VCS, like Subversion, but >> you lose, IIUC, the ability to check in incremental stuff >> > > If you work in (say) your own branch of a SVN repo you can check in as > often as you like. And you can merge other branches - including trunk - > into your own as often as you like. That is the "way" it is intended to be > used. Only when you are convinced all the merged changes (including trunk) > in your own branch work properly would you be confident in merging back > into trunk. > > So if "the network is the computer", SVN *is* distributed and > increment-friendly. I think git and friends are very popular because so > many devs like to operate with laptops in cafes and trains etc. > > > or check what > >> was their in an older version, when not connected. >> > > That is true if the SVN repo is on the network. But there are a number of > ways to organise things with a local repo if that is your situation. > However, if that is your situation, I agree git or hg would be better. > > I'm just planning a deployment scenario with SVN: dev --> staging (sharing > the dev database) --> production. > > I'll open up a deploy branch in the repo and merge trunk into that when > I'm ready to deploy. Then I only need a script on the production server to > fetch the deploy branch whenever I want to update production. > > Mike > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > django-users+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<django-users%[email protected]> > . > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/django-users?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
