A couple more subversion notes

[Marcin Dalecki]

On 2005-10-20, at 16:57, Richard Kenner wrote:

>     Sorry about that, but let's not remember of the other dozens which
>     works on branches and can do a merge in seconds instead of  
> literally
>     *hours*, and so on.
>
> Yes, but how often do even those who work on branches a lot do merges?
> If not very often, why not just start it up, background it, and go  
> to sleep?
>
>     I don't think we can uniformly win everywhere, right now. I  
> believe I
>     have already shown and spoken about many day-to-day advantages  
> even
>     for people working only on mainline/release branches, and I'm sure
>     that people that wanted to listen have understood.
>
> What I keep seeing are increasingly complex solutions in order to keep
> efficiency the same as it is now.  This is a very large distributed  
> cost,
> which can't be ignored.

If speaking about cost you shouldn't forget to discount them with the  
cost of things which simply don't get done and cost people have to  
"work around" or "learn to live with" due to source code management  
by CVS. A better dirctory hierarych for example...