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

[Ceri Davies]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 01:22:12PM +0000, Nik Clayton wrote:
> Ollivier Robert wrote:
> >According to Peter Wemm:
> >>Like perforce, it is fully client/server, but it has some considerable 
> >>advantages over perforce:
> >>
> >>1) It has fairly good detached operation modes.  You can do logs, diffs, 
> >>reverts, etc while detached.  It does this by keeping metadata and a 
> >>small number of revisions cached locally.
> >
> >In my opinion, it is not enough.  You can't svn commit on a detached mode.
> >You can't work as if you were connected, commit several csets, go back one
> >and so on.  That's too limiting.
> 
> And when you need that, you use svk, which others have pointed out. 

I find the aspect of "user choice" rather alluring.  I can't see any
reason why I'd want to use a dVCS (not an invitation to throw situations
at me; they don't apply, trust me).

Ceri
-- 
That must be wonderful!  I don't understand it at all.
                                                  -- Moliere
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