As a former Perforce guru, I can butt in here. ;)
'Integration' in Perforce is what we know as (future) merge tracking.
Perforce excels at this and their system is very comprehensive. The main
draw is that, as I believe has been discussed here in the past, that it
remembers all integrations (merges) in a code line so when you go to
merge something again, it'll skip what's already there. Keeps full
lineage/family tree. Very nice. Simplistic description, but that's the
1000 foot view of it.
The graphical history browser is rather keen, too. Similar in concept to
the graphical tree in TortoiseSVN, but it scrolls sideways along a
changelist-centric timeline. Not something that core svn would implement
on it's own, but a logical extension of the data obtained through merge
tracking.
For what it's worth, you can download a fully functional Perforce server
and client (2 user) for free and try it out. It's a single, small daemon
and is very easy to install so you can see the stuff folks mention on
these lists.
-Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Molle Bestefich [mailto:molle.bestefich@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 9:39 AM
To: Paul Charlton
Cc: dev@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
Subject: Re: Tortoise 1.30 5416
Paul Charlton wrote:
> 1) cygwin svn is used basically as a readonly client for an automated
cross
> platform build system --- the use of generic build scripts for *NIX
and
> Win32 has been a benefit -- and is not truly mission critical.
Hmm, AFAICS you should be able to use the native win32 svn binaries
with Cygwin gmake / bash / what not. Not sure it would help you, just
an idea.
> I will put in a plug for getting functionality similar to Perforce
> "Integrate" with its documentation features, and for separate tools
for
> visualizing and managing codelines --- I'd even consider volunteering
to
> work on those sort of tools for SVN.
Sounds funky. If you're sitting on any good links that would explain
what exactly "Integrate" does (use cases or something), feel free to
send 'em my way :-).
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