Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> Could you please describe one real "desaster" that might happen if
> someone uses the "create repository" function the wrong way? Because I
> don't see one...
>
It's not that I think it's likely to lead to disaster. It's that those
VSS-loving hardware engineers and quality managers make a mess of something and
raise hell about how disastrously bad SVN is. One of them managed, by means
entirely unknown to him, to not only create a local repository within a working
copy, but to check that directory structure into the real repository. And his
boss used it as yet one more reason we should have stayed with VSS yadda yadda
yadda.
I'm not one of those who say "if the free software community want to gain
acceptance they must..." but I'm working with people who won't accept anything
non-commercial (or even non-Microsoft) unless it's demonstrably easier to use,
more whizzy, prettier, more loser-friendly, etc. etc. Pointing out that VSS is
hopelessly broken while SVN works right just won't win the argument, and if they
can point to places where they've got SVN to do something undesirable it's just
another thorn in my side. I was hoping I could just tell them to turn off the
unwanted options, and they wouldn't be able to get it wrong. Instead you want me
to continue trying to educate them as to why the options they're never going to
need are actually useful to experts. That won't work - they always come back
with "but it has to be used by non-experts".
Anyway, rant over.
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Received on 2008-07-24 14:47:21 CEST