Re: [boost] Moving from CVS to Subversion?

From: Martin Slater (mslater_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-06 01:21:50

David Abrahams wrote:

>I am just posting this here to alert those who look at subject lines
>to what we're discussing.  To review the whole discussion, see
>http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3cuk6pujjyu.fsf%40boost%2dconsulting.com%3e
>
>Regards,
>  
>
Can anyone comment on whether the branching has got better in svn? In 
particular (Quoting from 
http://www.gamesfromwithin.com/articles/0407/000026.html)

<quote>
Here's the real killer blow for me: Subversion doesn't keep track of 
what merges have been applied to a file. That's up to you to keep track 
of somehow. That means that for every file (or set of files), you have 
to know up to what revision they've been integrated, and only pull in 
the changes from that revision on.Here's the real killer blow for me: 
Subversion doesn't keep track of what merges have been applied to a 
file. That's up to you to keep track of somehow. That means that for 
every file (or set of files), you have to know up to what revision 
they've been integrated, and only pull in the changes from that revision on.
</quote>

This appears to be very limiting if you rely heavily on branching.

cheers

martin