Work-Related Grumble

[cjsmith]

I officially hate SVN.

(Don't get me wrong; it's probably great for power users and people who never merge to/from a branch more than once or twice. Many thanks to preedmozblog, by the way, for pointing me at a tool that might replace my entire whiteboard for branch merge management. The problem I have with SVN is that when not everyone is a power user, or not everyone knows to track merges on their whiteboard, you get real trouble.)

Comments

[tytso.livejournal.com]

There are other tools such as Mercurial and git that are much better at handling a large number of branches and merging work done in topic branches down into one or more release branches. The problem of course is this requires retraining the entire development population, which is often an impractical proposition.