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Re: Subversion, decentralized version control, and the future.

From: Graham Leggett <minfrin_at_sharp.fm>
Date: 2007-07-04 15:38:16 CEST

On Wed, July 4, 2007 2:37 pm, Branko ÄŒibej wrote:

> Why? I'm really interested: What, exactly, do you (we) gain by that?

The concept returns to the original method of version control that people
used before there was version control, and that was to "make a copy of a
the source directory". Tags modelled like directories are easy for new
users to understand.

> Compared to all the real pain it's causing.

Having introduced this concept during a number of migrations to
subversion, I honestly haven't seen anyone go through any pain.

Regards,
Graham

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