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 [...]
This subject has come up a few times in the last few days - I thought I’d take the opportunity to collect my thoughts from various emails and put them here.
Svnmerge.py is a tool which tries to fix the _totally broken_ “svn merge” command. Here’s an example scenario. My repository contains a number of branches [...]
I managed to find some time to watch this today: Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git
Git is a distributed SCM system - Linus wrote it in two weeks. It seems like it’s getting some traction among some of the Rails crowd. Mozilla seriously considered adopting it for Mozilla 2 work but the lack of a [...]
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