Ben Elliston wrote: >> 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.
Yes. And unless you want to make the jump to distributed VCS, it still does. Andrew.
