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[arch-users] diagnosing svn Tom Lord arch-users@lists.fifthvision.net Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:20:19 -0800 (PST) Previous message: [arch-users] job market observation Next message: [arch-users] small glitch in 'larch undo --no-output' Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] People have recently said things here along the lines of "svn fails to significantly improve upon CVS and, to the degree it does, meta-CVS and dcvs do the same job in a better way" (I pretty much agree) and "it looks like an ego driven project" (perhaps, but then I'd like to think that arch is a pride driven project and ultimately, isn't that just a slight difference in spin?). I've thought a lot about "what went wrong" with svn (and take it as axiomatic, on this list, that _something_ went wrong) for two reasons: (1) like Bob, I really tried to like svn; (2) as I started to think about "what went wrong" -- it seemed like what went wrong was a bunch of mistakes of exactly the sort that I am incli

The Wayback Machine - https://web.archive.org/web/20030915230928/http://lists.fifthvision.net:80/pipermail/arch-users/2003-February/025283.html Tom Lord arch-users@lists.fifthvision.net Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:20:19 -0800 (PST) Previous message: [arch-users] job market observation Next message: [arch-users] small glitch in 'larch undo --no-output' Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] People have recently said things here along the lines of "svn fails to significantly improve upon CVS and, to the degree it does, meta-CVS and dcvs do the same job in a better way"…

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