Posted by Greg Donald on 01/14/05 07:26

On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 01:30:39 +0100, Jochem Maas <jochem@iamjochem.com> wrote:
> do you use a visual client
> for subversion?

No. I use svn from command line.

> the reason I ask is that I found cvs a nightmare until
> someone pointed me to tortoiseCVS - which is just too easy to use!
> And I just noticed tortoiseSVN exists which seems to be the subversion
> counterpart...(can't tell if the projects/devs are related or whether
> the name is merely a little mark of respect towards its cvs counterpart)
>
> Also did you step over to subversion out of need for extra functionality
> or was it originally down to curiosity

I began to use it because I was contracting work from a company who
used it. I saw all the things in it that were improved compared to
cvs. So I switched at home too.

Some things are worse though. Like in cvs it's pretty simple to hide a file:

echo 'config.php' > .cvsignore

versus the more complicated syntax for hiding one with subversion:

svn propset svn:ignore -F 'config.php' .

> personally I'm still struggling
> with the concepts of branches and tag too much to dive in and learn even
> more powerful functionality.

Subversion shines here. When you create the initial tree you make the
trunk, branches, and tags directories from the start.


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Greg Donald
Zend Certified Engineer
http://destiney.com/

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