Re: Subversion 2.0

2019-06-24 Thread Eric S. Raymond
Stefan Sperling : > Another useful feature would be built-in support for Git's fast-export > streams in svnadmin dump/load. That would be a very good idea. But not easy. reposurgeon reads and understands Subversion dump files. If you want a running start of fast import and fast export, look at t

Re: Subversion 2.0

2019-06-24 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 04:24:46PM +0200, Branko Čibej wrote: > 3. "This protocol is too chatty, let's invent a better one" > > Our wire protocol is a module. We can invent new ones without affecting > existing ones. Likewise for repository storage, or working copy storage, > etc. (with the latter

Re: Subversion 2.0

2019-06-24 Thread Branko Čibej
On 21.06.2019 13:12, Nathan Hartman wrote: > Subversion 1.x is mature, stable, rock-solid, reliable, and safe. The > goal of 1.x is now stability and availability. Big changes and > whiz-bang new features don't really belong there. It's time for > Subversion 2.0, the Subversion of the future. I do

Re: Subversion's community health

2019-06-24 Thread Simon
An interesting if slightly sad read. I want to add my support and praise as a long-time user of Subversion. I still come across many users out there. Subversion is thriving in one particular business I work with. The youngsters have brought some Git in with them but it seems to be led by fashi

Re: Subversion 2.0

2019-06-24 Thread Paul Hammant
> [..] How can we leverage Subversion's centralized structure to give > something _better_than modern workflows? I'm the guy behind http://trunkbaseddevelopment.com and am predictably going to say the workflow Svn needs to ace is trunk-based development. That includes (since 2008) some mechanism f