From: Adrian Howard <adrianh@...>
Date: 2007-03-21T18:49:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Why SVN?


On 21 Mar 2007, at 09:30, Mike Schwab wrote:

>
>> Professionally, I use subversion, though my team is looking to  
>> migrate
>> to something that does a better job at branch management and merging.
>
> I have been thinking a lot about this too; the rule about not checking
> in broken code seems to mitigate some of the agility that I'd like to
> have.  If I make progress and check in a branch, then I can delete  
> what
> I damn please in my further attempts to get it working.  I will always
> have those revisions to start from if it turns out my deleting was too
> hasty.  If I keep it local until it's passing tests, I don't have that
> (but I can often approximate it by commenting lines out).
[snip]

You might want to consider using SVK as your client (if you're happy  
using the command line). It's a distributed system built on top of  
subversion - so you can mirror subversion repos locally and push/pull  
changes between your local copy and the main one.

I've been using it for about a year as my primary way of talking to  
subversion and have been very happy with it.

Cheers,

Adrian