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
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[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.
[..]