From: David Kastrup Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:02:01 GMT Subject: Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful Message-ID: <85wsjkgr7a.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> In-Reply-To: <6B9BBA72-6E75-47E3-911A-4A5309090807@sb.org> Kevin Ballard writes: > 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. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum