Re: Subversion's community health

Guten Tag Karl Fogel,
am Freitag, 14. Juni 2019 um 18:16 schrieben Sie:

> I just put out an informal Twitter poll to get a sense of how
> people are using Subversion these days:

> https://twitter.com/kfogel/status/1139559630059843586

> (Or at least, to get a sense of how Twitter users who happen to see
> my tweet are using Subversion these days :-) .)

Asking the same here and on the users list might make sense as well.

I pretty much have the same use case like you, mostly with deployment
to different customers using per-product SVN-repos. authz is simply
necessary for us to restrict customers access to only their own tags.

Additionally, the usage scenario of SVN better reflects what is needed
with my customers: It doesn't make sense to allow them things like
local branches to e.g. heavily customize the deployment and they
don't even want to do that. Instead, if they change configs or such,
that needs to be considered during updates anyway and SVN forces me to
do so. That's simply a service to the customers making their life a
bit easier.

Some of them don't even understand why they should commit simple
config changes using a reasonable log message for long term benefit,
so run into conflicts because of incompatible local changes from time
to time. Those customers wouldn't be able to work any better with e.g.
GIT and things like commit vs. push and stuff. Running lots of
different GIT-repos per product per-customer wouldn't make my life
easier as well.

I'm not necessarily such a big fan of local-only-branches possible
with GIT for companies as well, because in my opinion, everything
employees do should be available to the company mostly. Of course
people don't necessarily need to commit using SVN as well, but that's
refusing to work in the end.

OTOH, for OSS-libs and -apps, Git and GitHub make life a lot easier.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Thorsten Schöning

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