From: Jeremy Tregunna <jtregunna@...>
Date: 2007-03-13T10:28:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Why SVN?

On 12-Mar-07, at 8:05 PM, James Edward Gray II wrote:

> On Mar 12, 2007, at 6:13 PM, Jeremy Tregunna wrote:
>> The ability to cherry pick patches is also a real benefit.
>
> Is it, really?  I'm not trying to be combative, I'm just wondering  
> how often that comes up.

In certain cases it is, yes.

> It sounds darn cool to the geek in me, but I find myself wondering  
> if it happens a lot.  I guess I can envision a few specialized  
> scenarios where it could be handy, but I really don't feel I would  
> use it much for mainstream software.
>
> For example, I really doubt there are many patches to Ruby I want  
> to skip out on.

There may be patches I'd want to skip out on in other projects --  
platforms I don't need support for, objects I won't use, you can  
continue this line of thought. Not having the ability to just discard  
those w/o affecting the repo's consistency, is nice. Sure it'd only  
be used in corner cases, but when you stumble across such a corner  
case, you'll wish you had that ability (or maybe you won't, who am I  
to say).

--jer

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