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SVN 1.5

Well – (finally) Subversion 1.5 is out! 

For the first time svn has built in support for repeated merges without spurious conflicts or manually managing the list of previously merged revisions.

This is _fantastic_ news. The basis of the merge tracking feature in 1.5 was svnmerge.py which means that many svn users will already have a reasonable idea how it works. (List of merged revisions are stored in svn properties on a branch). 

I’ve been watching the development of svn 1.5 for the last 18 months (give or take) crying everyday that I have to manually manage merging work as I oggle the feature list. 

TortoiseSVN has a significantly enhanced release as well. I’m particularly excited about this because it supports caching the change log which will make a huge difference for me given that my svn server it 2 continents and 300ms away.

It also looks like there may be some progress on cleaning up the working copy implementation.¹. Which would involve fixing the whole every folder with .svn folders problem (a la git or svk). 

1. http://subversion.tigris.org/roadmap.html [↩]