Re: Considering teaching plumbing to users harmful

[Kevin Ballard <kevin@sb.org>]

On Jul 17, 2008, at 9:05 AM, David Kastrup wrote:

>> Distinguishing between branch part of directory name by _convention_
>> is design mistake; the fact that the tool doesn't help to ensure that
>> (a) tags lie on branch (b) tags _doesn't change_ is an example of  
>> this
>> stupidity.
>
> How much have you worked with Subversion so far?  I am doing quite a  
> bit
> of work with it, and the do-everything-via-copying paradigm does not  
> get
> in my hair.  It actually means that I have to remember fewer commands.
> And it is pretty easy to understand.

Sure, it's simpler, but the overhead in creating and using a branch is  
much larger. I have to extract the URL from the repository (since  
naturally I only have trunk checked out), issue a command to copy by  
URL, then issue an `svn switch` command, and then I have to remember  
that I have a switched repository. Switching between branches is a  
pain, especially if you have uncommitted work. There's a reason I  
never bothered to use branches when I used subversion.

-Kevin Ballard

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