Comments on: Subversion

By: Dan Hounshell

Dan Hounshell — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 02:31:00 +0000

We just started using Subversion and Tortoise SVN a couple of weeks ago and I am hooked. I was a little reluctant at first (being a .NET guy and all), but it is a great tool and very simple to use. As Sam said, check-in is a piece of cake – even with 3 developers working on the same project, the auto-merge does its job 99.9% of the time.

By: Darrell

Darrell — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:06:00 +0000

Subversion rocks. It’s CVS done right, and kick’s VSS’s ass (though I still use VSS when working on 1-man local-box-only development).

By: Jeffrey Palermo

Jeffrey Palermo — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:17:00 +0000

I've been using SVN through a free host: opensvn.csie.org

I have my personal projects there. I can version any file from anywhere.

By: Jeff Handley

Jeff Handley — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:43:00 +0000

Funny... I had never heard of Subversion until today. I read this blog entry and then about an hour later, my client called to tell me the project will be switching to Subversion in a couple of months (from VSS).

I too would be interested in hearing your thoughts after you've used it for awhile.

-Jeff

By: mitchell@4guysfromrolla.com (Sco

mitchell@4guysfromrolla.com (Sco — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 18:09:00 +0000

I’d be interested in hearing your review once you’ve used it more. Hopefully you’ll publish a follow-up here on your blog.

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By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:45:00 +0000

I love Subversion. Suffered with VSS, and eventually worked up the motivation to give SGV a shot. Better than VSS, but to be honest, that’s not saying much.

Not that SGV is bad, but it had too much of a VSS "feel" to really blow me away. It was basically a VSS, except that it actually worked.

So if you actually like VSS, and have a budget to spend, I don’t have anything bad to say about it I suppose.

Now Subversion on the other hand… TortoiseSVN is great!!! It’s fast. And I mean really fast compared to VSS and SGV. It’s merging is so good I just don’t have to think about it most of the time, and when I do have file revision conflicts, the diff viewer is simple (if a bit mouse-select flaky) and… well… it’s free. It does what I expect a source-control solution to do, better than everything else I’ve tried, and it’s free. I guess I can’t say much more than that. I could kick myself for not trying it sooner though.