Comments on: VSS to Subversion Migration

By: Sheheryar

Sheheryar — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:00:51 +0000

You don’t need to set externals for every user and you can add links to files (instead of copying them) in a project.

By: Fawzia

Fawzia — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:46:37 +0000

What about sharing one or more files across sub-projects. SVN’s recommended approach is SVN:externals that is set outside of SVN and hence has to be done for every user separately.(Import/Export of these settings is surely a work around).
Also we’ve expereinced weird problems with SVN’s conflict resolution where sometimes one programmer’s header is merged with another programmer’s code body. It has to be monitored and sometimes done manually.
The reason to cite these problems is not to dis SVN (which has its own strengths) but to recognise that your choice of configuration management is a variable factor that differs from organisation to organisation. Have a good day.

By: Shey

Shey — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:34:53 +0000

I’ve done this migration 2 or 3 times now

By: Ben Scheirman

Ben Scheirman — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 01:21:30 +0000

Yay for moving off to a much better source control provider!