From: Kyle Schmitt <kyleaschmitt@...>
Date: 2007-04-05T04:09:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Why SVN?

> I'm totally fine with centralized VCS.
>
> I'm even more fine with software that doesn't corrupt repositories,
> is easy to back up, easy to understand, and works really well / stays
> out of my way. Perforce is rock solid and has a long standing rock
> solid history. I _have_ to have 100% complete trust in my VCS and its
> backups. I simply can't say that about much of any other VCS out
> there (except the nice stable old ones, like CVS). Too new. Too
> buggy. Too experimental. Too full of agendas. I just want to get work
> done.


To me, that only sounds like an argument against using Visual Source Safe ;)

As far as backing up an SVN repository (especially if it's using the
file system instead of BDB) tar does a pretty good job.

For the completely paranoid people that are afraid their backup will
be useless in 5 years because software will no longer be available, or
the current version won't read the old version, the svn source code is
small enough to be included on the backup disc.