Tom Malia wrote:
> The answer is that the statement: "Typical situation" is a context sensitive
> statement... In SVN, "everyone checking out their own copy" is "Typical" In
> visual source safe, strictly speaking it's not possible for everyone to
> check out their own copy. VSS uses strictly "Locking" for version control.
> One person at a time can officially have the file checked out. If more than
> one person actually wants to work on the same file at the same time and at
> least one person is going to check the file out, then everyone else has no
> choice to do a "Get latest copy" (SVN equivalent of Export) to get a copy of
> the file they can work on out of the REPO.
>
> I don't want to get into a "which method is better" argument here... as I've
> said, I find good and bad in both approaches... but this is the situation as
> I see it.
I'm just missing the point of working around a deficiency that no longer
exists... If you want everyone's work to be isolated in svn you just
copy to a branch and you still have the tools to diff against other
revisions. If you want the end result to be a set of diffs from your
branch against the trunk, I think that can be done instead of the direct
merge.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@gmail.com
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Received on Mon Mar 19 22:09:34 2007