Today I needed to convert a Subversion working copy (aka a checkout) into an export. Recursively blowing away all of the .svn directories in DOS (Windows XP) didn’t seem to be straightforward so I ended up using UNIX find in cygwin. Here is the command:
find . -type d -name ‘.svn’ -exec rm -rf {} \;
The [...]
This blog post looks like it might be a good introduction to the idea of “Code Shelves” and how one might use them in Subversion.
Subversion is perfect (simple concept, lots of books, good tool integration, and easy to use) but for the fact that it doesn’t support:
Merge tracking
Distributed operation
While the former should be addressed in version 1.5, the latter is anyone’s guess.
The problem is that Subversion is just so good that eventually you will will want a distributed mode [...]
On my previous project, we had just a bang-up bunch of guys on the team. Everyone was smart, thoughtful, and worked well together: it was ideal. Since there was no revision control system in place when we arrived for the project, we decided to use Subversion. Since I had championed Subversion, I became both the [...]