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just a versioned filesystem (Score:1)
Where subversion works well is in providing a centralized versioned filesystem. For many people, that is enough to allow it to be used as a source code repository given a couple conventions (i.e. "trunk, branches, tags" and "don't mess with the tags".)
Having never been a CVS user, I find svn to be much more approachable and never felt like the tags weren't taggy enough.
Now, for merging and distributed revision control, git certainly has lots of benefits. But I think it also loses the ease-of-use of svn fo
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I totally agree that people explain git unproductively. I've written about that before [manxome.org]. It's definitely possible to say "just give me the trunk head," because gitweb lets you click to get a tgz of it. I don't know what the corresponding git command is, or if (maybe) it isn't exposed with one -- but it is clearly possible and easy. That would be the equivalent to svn export, though, not svn checkout.
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Re:just a versioned filesystem (Score:1)
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