From: Jeremy Tregunna <jtregunna@...>
Date: 2007-03-13T08:13:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Why SVN?

On 12-Mar-07, at 7:07 PM, Rob Sanheim wrote:

> On 3/12/07, Tanner Burson <tanner.burson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This is going a bit OT for ruby-talk, but I'll bite.
>>
>> I work from several different machines, in several different  
>> locations,
>> including from a laptop that is often disconnected from the  
>> internet.  It's
>> extremely useful for me to be able to record changes, branch,  
>> work, in my
>> normal manner, without worrying about the fact that when I DO get a
>> connection all my changes will show up as one big lump.  So I use  
>> Darcs over
>> SSH.  It gives me a full, functional repository with "commits" as  
>> I need
>> them, without being connected.  Then when I get back to  
>> civilization I can
>> push all my changes back to my main repo and be good to go, SVN  
>> can't give
>> me that kind of work flow, so I've moved away from it.  (I'm aware  
>> of SVK,
>> but never could get it working well on linux/mac/and windows)
>>
>> At work, where I work from a single workstation, always connected  
>> to the
>> network, I use SVN, because it fits the environment better.  Use  
>> the tool
>> that fits the job, and move on.
>
> Is this the only real compelling reason to switch to Darcs or similiar
> alternatives?   For me I'm never off the net long enough for the
> centralized repository in svn to become a problem.  Even when I'm
> working from a laptop most of the day, I'll have free wifi available
> somewhere to sync up.

The ability to cherry pick patches is also a real benefit.

--jer

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> - Rob
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