Fallout from the CVS discussion

Tim Kientzle tim at kientzle.com
Sun Sep 16 21:06:00 UTC 2012


On Sep 16, 2012, at 1:53 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote:

> 2. Subversion sometimes breaks between major/minor versions (1.6->1.7 comes to mind) and is not backwards compatible in many cases (again, 1.6 -> 1.7 transition).

Yep.

The working-copy compatibility issue is a pretty
serious obstacle to including SVN in base.

I generally like SVN a lot, but the WC format changes
are real headaches when you have a bunch of tools
that use different SVN libraries. 

Tim



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