From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2007-04-05T08:11:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Why SVN?


On Apr 4, 2007, at 12:09 , Kyle Schmitt wrote:

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

Well, that's just a given.

> 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.

I think this is part of the problem. I don't want to think about what  
storage mechanism it uses (past an evaluation stage at least). I  
don't want to have to think: Did they test this storage format as  
well as the previous? What are the repercussions of using this over  
the other (eg http vs svn protocol)? I just want it to work so I can  
do the same.

I've seen too much SVN corruption already to trust it.