From: Kevin Ballard Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:15:01 GMT Subject: Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful Message-ID: <6B9BBA72-6E75-47E3-911A-4A5309090807@sb.org> In-Reply-To: <86k5fk1ooq.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> On Jul 17, 2008, at 9:05 AM, David Kastrup wrote: >> Distinguishing between branch part of directory name by _convention_ >> is design mistake; the fact that the tool doesn't help to ensure that >> (a) tags lie on branch (b) tags _doesn't change_ is an example of >> this >> stupidity. > > 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. Sure, it's simpler, but the overhead in creating and using a branch is much larger. I have to extract the URL from the repository (since naturally I only have trunk checked out), issue a command to copy by URL, then issue an `svn switch` command, and then I have to remember that I have a switched repository. Switching between branches is a pain, especially if you have uncommitted work. There's a reason I never bothered to use branches when I used subversion. -Kevin Ballard -- Kevin Ballard http://kevin.sb.org kevin@sb.org http://www.tildesoft.com