From: Craig L. Ching <cching@mqsoftware.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:18:06 GMT
Subject: Subversion's do-everything-via-copying paradigm ( was RE: Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org 
> [mailto:git-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of David Kastrup
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 11:05 AM
> To: git@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful
> 
> How much have you worked with Subversion so far?  I am doing 
> quite a bit of work with it, and the 
> do-everything-via-copying paradigm does not get in my hair.  
> It actually means that I have to remember fewer commands.
> And it is pretty easy to understand.
> 

Does it not bother you that renaming a file is a copy + delete [1].
Have they fixed that yet?  That was one of the biggest reasons we never
moved to subversion.

Ok, I'm done picking on Subversion for now :-P

[1] -- http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=898

> --
> David Kastrup
> 

Cheers,
Craig