Goodbye Subversion
September 12th 2011
I have been using SVN for years, basically since 2004, when I got really fed up with CVS, which was used at my work back then. What seduced me in SVN was the ability to easily configure it as an Apache module, coupled with our central LDAP authentication, and SSL encryption, and its ability to track file renames/moves.
I also enjoy its wide platform compatibility, as well as its excellent windows companion tool : TortoiseSVN, which works wonders compared to the horrible WinCVS.
It took me a little bit of time to fully understand the benefit of atomic commit numbers, as opposed to file versions in CVS, as well as the directory structure used to simulate branches and tags (seems like implemented as an afterthought, doesn’t it ?).
Then came the DCVS. Continue Reading »
