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kisielk on Dec 18, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: History of version control - 10 astonishments

With Subversion branching and merging was still a mess, at least everywhere I ever saw it used.

latchkey on Dec 18, 2011 [–]

Oh, it is a complete failure. I've switched to Git entirely as a result of it and will never use Subversion again if I can help it.

I wrote a long'ish blog post detailing why it is a failure:

http://lookfirst.com/2011/04/subversion-mistake.html

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