Why are branches real directories?!?!?!

Hi,

I just started playing with svn. I like most ideas that were introduced.
There is only one thing that I don't get.
If I overcome this, then I'm done with CVS. Please, help me.

Why isn't the branch concept fully implemented?

IMHO, copying to a new directory a part of the repository to create a branch
is BAD (even if it's cheap). It reminds me one time I _had_ to use VSS in a
project.

The svn guide says:
"Subversion's branches exist a normal filesystem directories in the
repository, not in some extra dimension."
But isn't the extra dimension the coolest thing about a version control
tool?
Having the same file system tree when switching between revisions or
branches avoids changing paths in make files, configuration files, etc...
SVN might as well create a new filename for every revision of a file
(filename-r1, filename-r2, etc...).
It doesn't. So the history of a file is an extra dimension to a regular file
system.
Why would this be a problem with branches?

Also (not a big deal, but still), the names of the branches may interfere
with future directories.

JL

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Received on Wed Apr 2 05:16:26 2003