Subversion? (Re: HEADS UP: Importing csup into base)

[Nik Clayton]

Ollivier Robert wrote:
> Now, I don't think subversion is the answer.  It has some better things
> than CVS (which is not difficult in itself) but still lacks a fundamental
> feature: when you merge from a branch, it has no memory that you did so and
> when.  It is bad.

Subversion is really two products.  One is a network-aware versioned 
filesystem, the other is a set of tools for working on top of that 
filesystem.

It's true that the standard tools shipped with Subversion don't support 
that feature, but there's no reason why Subversion-the-filesystem couldn't.

Since the filesystem supports arbitrary named properties, you could use 
a different tool, alongside the tools that ship as part of 
Subversion-the-product, and store this information in the repository as 
properties.

In fact, this is exactly what contrib/svnmerge in the Subversion 
distribution does.

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