Why SVN still sucks

Thursday, October 28th 2004, 09:58 CEST

Skien, Norway

Because it still is very intuitive for basic things like reverting a file back to a previous version.

ez-3.5$ svn merge -r 9201:9200 kernel/classes/ezcontentobject.php
svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/nextgen/!svn/vcc/default'
svn: Invalid editor anchoring; at least one of the input paths is not a directory and there was no source entry
ez-3.5$ svn merge -r9201:9200 http://host/trunk/kernel/classes/ezcontentobject.php
svn: REPORT request failed on '/svn/nextgen/!svn/vcc/default'
svn: Invalid editor anchoring; at least one of the input paths is not a directory and there was no source entry
ez-3.5$ cd kernel/classes
ez-3.5/kernel/classes$ svn merge -r9201:9200 http://host/trunk/kernel/classes/ezcontentobject.php
U  ezcontentobject.php

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Comments

confused

Thursday, October 28th 2004, 10:17 UTC

Are you being sarcastic?

Derick

Thursday, October 28th 2004, 11:05 UTC

Not at all, SVN might fix a few CVS annoyances, but it adds a whole lot of them too. This is just one example.

Joe Grossberg

Thursday, October 28th 2004, 14:11 UTC

You mean UNintuitive, no?

Derick

Thursday, October 28th 2004, 18:50 UTC

Right, UNinituitive

Jacques

Thursday, October 28th 2004, 20:12 UTC

Derick's pointing out the fact that you have to live with other issues with svn which are highly annoying but then again cvs also has other annoyances.

big D

Friday, November 10th 2006, 15:02 UTC

SVN tool support in eclipse/windows is poor. Subclipse, subversive and Tortoise all corrupt my repository on a bi-weekly basis. Not the actual source under version control, but the internal meta-info files that SVN keeps. In addition SVN triples the data kept on your local machine resulting in both disk bloat and terribly slow synch times for non-trivial projects.

Worst thing is once corrupted, the "cleanup" command rarely works.

Wait for this to settle down (it's 11/2006 as I write this) before you jump in in a commercial dev envirionment.

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