Hi Juliano,
Thank you for that elaborate analysis. Aside from functionality comparison, I find one thing missing that would be important if the MediaWiki project were to facilitate another tool for SCM: multi platform support. Can you add some information on that, too, because I know that we have developers on Linux, OS X, and Windows, and we wouldn't really like to exculde one of those groups just because of the used SCM tool. Having proper clients on all major platforms is one of the reasons I really like Subversion for...
Cheers! Siebrand
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikitech-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] Namens Juliano F. Ravasi Verzonden: zaterdag 15 november 2008 4:32 Aan: Wikimedia developers Onderwerp: Re: [Wikitech-l] SVN update on live sites to r43514, questions on branching
Hello Brion,
Brion Vibber wrote:
The SVN server was updated to 1.5 a while ago, which is apparently a little handier at branch merging, but branching still is kind of awkward in SVN.
That is probably not branching that you meant, but merge tracking.
There have been reasonable merge tracking support available for a long time for Subversion, either through the svnmerge.{sh,py} utility (that is distributed along with Subversion itself, since 1.2) or through SVK (both existed since before Git)... and *nobody cared*! People either branched and merged anyways, like described in svnbook (until 1.5), or a few looked for these handier tools when they needed.
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