On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 9:26 AM Luke Mauldin <lukemaul...@icloud.com> wrote: > > Is the SVN repository still in use or was it transitioned to something else? > The primary users of this SVN repo will be engineers who are not software > developers so I think the less complex nature of SVN compared to Git could be > a definite advantage. However, I am concerned about the long-term viability > of the SVN project because I would like the repo to still be usable by in 5-8 > years. Just looking at the development mailing lists, it looks like almost > all development has stopped on Subversion which is concerning to me.
IMO, this should not be a big concern. Subversion development is slow because the project is mature and stable. But for example, there was some recent discussion and activity about making even more improvements to handling of large binary files (your use case): https://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/subversion-dev/202107.mbox/%3c874kcf6xin....@red-bean.com%3e I think this is an example of the type of improvement that will come to this project in the coming years, but there are only so many of these refinements left to make. I do not think any of the really big problems, like how renames are handled, are likely ever to be solved. Ultimately what is the alternative? Not use version control at all? If some better alternative emerges in the next 5-8 years it will almost certainly provide a migration path for SVN repositories. You are probably going to want to use a GUI client like TortoiseSVN. I have not followed that recently but it is usually pretty active and there is always room to make significant improvements in GUI clients that do not require any changes in the core SVN API as most of them are just about optimizing workflows. Mark
