re: What do you Hate about Subversion?

["Morel, Jacques" <Ja...@sabre-holdings.com>]

On Jan 18, 2007, at 04:41, B. Smith-Mannschott wrote:
 
>(*) The lack of true rename support. Or rather, it keeps popping up in
>other explanations for other defects and odd behaviors such that I
>imagine that the world would be nicer if we had it. Though I'd have a
>hard time putting my finger on what exactly "it" is. I have the
>feeling the developers on subversion have the same difficulty
>(defining the semantics of what it would mean to have true renames),
>else why would it still be an open issue, considering it's been a todo
>since about subversion 1.0.
> 
>http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=898
>http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=895
 

This one is definitively my biggest gripe and consistently on the top of
my wish list since 1.0 ;-(

 
> 
>(*) The lack of merge tracking. Yes, I've tried to wrap my brain
>around svnmerge.py, I can make it work, but I've never quite
>understood how to use bidirectional merging. Even so, it's not much of
>a solution for most on my project since most use subclipse or
>tortoisesvn. I think I'm the only one that regularly using the command
>line. Currently we just don't do much branching, or branches are very
>short-lived.
> 
>http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=820

 

+1

 

Jacques