This might be well-known, but I haven't come across it (or thought about it) before, so maybe my pointing it out is helpful for someone.
I ran across this blog entry on Subversion recently: http://www.gamesfromwithin.com/articles/0407/000026.html It's a short comparison of Subversion and Perforce. The shortcomings of branching in subversion is high-lighted: "Here's the real killer blow for me: Subversion doesn't keep track of what merges have been applied to a file. That's up to you to keep track of somehow. That means that for every file (or set of files), you have to know up to what revision they've been integrated, and only pull in the changes from that revision on." Also a "litmus test" for source control is presented: "I also decided to try one of my current litmus tests for good handling of branching and merging: start with a file A in the main trunk, create a branch from it, modify the file both in the branch and in the main trunk in a way that no conflicts occur, then rename it to A_1 in the branch and attempt to merge back into main. Maybe I'm dreaming, but I'd like a good version control program to realize that file A has been modified and renamed, and apply both those changes to file A in main. Subversion falls short yet again by ignoring all changes done to file A in main and simply bringing over the changes from A_1. I didn't even get a warning of any kind. Not exactly refactoring friendly. But then again, Perforce fails this test as well, but at least it prints a warning to let you deal with the merge before giving up." Of course Arch doesn't suffer from the shortcoming, and it passes the "litmus test" with flying colours. -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://magnus.therning.org/ Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. Unreadable code, Why would anyone use it? Learn a better way. -- Geoff Kuenning's contribution to the 2004 Perl Haiku Contest, Haikus about Perl - 'Dishonerable Mention' winner _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list Gnu-arch-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
