Article:		Version Control on Mac OS X, Part 1
Subject:		Let's see an SVN article
Date:		2003-07-21 09:49:08
From:		anonymous2
I think it's nice to see a CVS introduction for MacOSX, however there seem to be dozens of tutorials and articles dedicated to the topic of setting up and using CVS on Unix-like systems. I'd love to see a comparable article discussing Subversion, especially since at some point Subversion will be stable and hopefully become the new de facto standard (replacing CVS in that role). The thing I hate most about CVS is simply that you can't easily rename a file, you have to make a copy of it (or get involved in low-level manipulation of the version history) which screws up the branch. "Rename" is one of the most frequently-done refactorings out there, so this is a big problem for agile development (for Java developers who must name their files after the classes they contain). I've been meaning to get started playing with Subversion, and I think oranet could do a good job of introducing SVN on MacOSX, even if the article has to refer to the current unstable code base.

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• Let's see an SVN article
  2003-08-02 16:20:21  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  Does SVN come with OS X?
  
  No?
  
  Don't you think you're missing the point of the article?
  
  Why don't you get started playing with SVN, get Apple to support it at least as well as they do CVS, then do an article showing us how to get started with it?
  
  And no, we don't want an intro to unstable code.
• Let's see an SVN article
  2003-12-01 00:16:30  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  Actually article about unstable products are really helpful for at least two reasons:
  - You get to learn the minimal core functions of a software without getting lost by two much details
  - It gives incredibely good feedback to application's developers at time t on a specified system.
  - And it's fun ....
  
  Don't wait for Apple to say it standard to use it... after all, Unix was there a long time before Apple every built anything and must of us have been using for decades ...
  
  Really, I didn't get your point ...