Re: Picture representation of svn operations

Dianne Chen <diana_chen23@yahoo.com> writes:
> I am suspicois that my familiarity with 1 CM tool is
> biasing my ability to explain in simple terms "how to
> use svn", especially when a graphical display
> tool does not yet exist to supplement any explanation.

I think that's what's going on.

The SVN way is conceptually simple to those who think of things the
SVN way. The ClearCase way is conceptually simple to those who think
of things the ClearCase way.

But it's hard to express the SVN way using ClearCase language. And
note that SVN doesn't merge branches back to trunk so much as it
merges individual changes, or sets of changes, from one tree to
another. (Usually, one tree is a copy of the other, but that's not
strictly required.) I think it's fair to say that SVN's merging
support is strictly less sophisticated than ClearCase's, though of
course we plan to improve it over time.

Finally, as you noted, SVN does not yet have the sophisticated
graphing tools that CC does.

Sorry not to have a more helpful answer.

-Karl

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Received on Mon Oct 4 18:50:12 2004