Joe's Amazing Technicolor Weblog » scm http://slagwerks.com/blog Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:31:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Is there any reason for subversion users not to be using svk? http://slagwerks.com/blog/index.php/2007/01/26/is-there-any-reason-for-subversion-users-not-to-be-using-svk/ http://slagwerks.com/blog/index.php/2007/01/26/is-there-any-reason-for-subversion-users-not-to-be-using-svk/#comments Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:25:41 +0000 joe http://slagwerks.com/blog/?p=13 After taking svk out for a spin this week, I’m having trouble thinking of any, beyond “it’s too hard to install because I don’t use a debian-based OS”. Not to say that there aren’t other OSes that it installs on easily, but I’ve only tried it on Ubuntu, which if course required only sudo apt-get install svk.
svk has some serious bennies:

  • no more .svn files littered throughout working directories!
  • we can keep committing away even when the svn server or network connection goes down, and then push all those commits to the server when things are working again.
  • smarter merging (I think; haven’t spent much time with it yet)
  • almost nothing to learn; for normal commands, just type svk instead of svn.

Not to say that all is perfect; the docs are a little thin & scattered. The most comprehensive seems to be the online book which is cribbed from subversion’s - in fact, a number of places in the book still read “subversion this & that” instead of “svk this and that”.

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