On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 2:27 PM sean wrote:
>
> On 2024-01-13 16:11, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>
> > There are not many compelling reasons
> > to use Subversion anymore, except the ability to check out only
> > subdirectories from a branch and the insistence that a single central
> > repository is the only source of truth.
>
> The ability to `svn lock` files is very useful if your repo has a lot of
> non-mergeable files, like say MS Office documents.
I have never once found that feature to be useful since I first used
Subversion back around 2001. Mind you, I'd treat Word documents as
binaries objects and not consider them suitable for incremental
changes in a source control system.
