> David Woodhouse wrote: > > To be honest, I find it weird that Subversion even exists. Precisely > > because it _is_ so close to what people were using before, as you point > > out. I've never really understood why anyone would bother to change from > > CVS to SVN -- it just seems to be part of the 'one VCS per project' > > insanity.
I remember seeing a talk by Jim Blandy on Subversion around 2001. At the time, the CVS-using community in the audience were (vocally) impressed by what a huge step forward it was in addressing the limitations of CVS. There are indeed other choices out there these days, but at the time it began, Subversion made a lot of sense. Ben
