On Aug 5, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote:
On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 11:19 -0400, Jesse Vincent wrote:
["branch" feature]
This sounds very useful. Is the SVK paradigm changing so that online
use is assumed, and offline is a mode to switch to temporarily?
No. But that's a common enough use case that it should be easy.
I'm used to thinking of SVK in one two ways:
1. As a better SVN client for normal always-online use
2. As a full-time disconnected client, with rare online use
to merge back to the SVN master
Is this new branch mode intended to generalize and replace the above
two? Or is it a third use case entirely?
It's a layer of sugar which we've found to be helpful in both use cases.
If this seems appealing, I'm sure I could get some clkao cycles if
there's more you folks need.
My biggest request (which you may or may not have any influence
over) is
better distro packaging. Both Debian and rpmforge have gone through
periods where SVK was completely fubar.
We've applied gentle pressure where we can for this. What we _have_
done is build binary releases of SVK which should work on a modern
(mac, linux, win32) box without depending on a distribution or
packager's limited time and resources.
Builds for 2.2b1 should appear at http://download.bestpractical.com/pub/svk/
within a few days.
