RE: What do you Hate about Subversion?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keng Lam [mailto:keng-lam@lycos.com]
> Sent: mercredi, 17. janvier 2007 22:19
> To: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: What do you Hate about Subversion?
>
>
> Have been using Subversion for a while now, love it in many ways but there are some quirks that
> bother me every now and then. It would be fun to know what other Subversion users think,
> what are the things that you hate, you wish could be changed ? Please this is not a negative/flame
> thread. Subversion is wonderful (but not perfect like any piece of software), that's why my organization
> and I still use it :-)

In the order of importance from my point of view:

- The fact that you can get the "copied from" information but not the "copied to".
  As I pointed out yet in this mailing list, this lead to no good possibility for the GUI tools to construct the revision graph of an element and that's really a pity. No way either to just get all the tags of an element, all the branches of an element, or to ask subversion for "the last tag on a branch" for instance.

- The impossibility to easily remove the history of a file/directory.

- The impossibility to checkout a file/set-of-files and not the whole directory and to set the svn:externals on files and not directories only.

Regards
Christophe Méresse
Received on Thu Jan 18 10:26:21 2007