Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful

From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Date: Jul 17, 2008, 21:02 UTC
Message-ID: <85wsjkgr7a.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
In-Reply-To: <6B9BBA72-6E75-47E3-911A-4A5309090807@sb.org>

Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org> writes:

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> On Jul 17, 2008, at 9:05 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> 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),

Say something like svn info and then use cut&paste.

> 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.

Huh? How is that different to remembering a switched branch? Anyway, one tends to check out different branches in different workdirs.

> 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.

Looks like it.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum