Subversion Branch/Merge Strategies
Subversion is many things, but it’s not all things to all people. The project set out to create a better CVS, and that is largely what Subversion has been so far. As a result of design decisions made early on, and a firm commitment to backwards compatibility, the project – at least until a 2.0 [...] Read more »
Distributed Version Control – Bridging the Gap to the Enterprise
I’ve been spending a lot of time reading about and playing with distributed version control tools (DSCM) recently, particularly Git and Mercurial, which seem to be the two primary players in this space at the moment. While Git certainly has its followers (Android being a prominent one), Mercurial offers pretty much the same range of [...] Read more »
AccessSVN 1.0.0 Released
For the past few months I’ve been product-managing a new Subversion management tool called AccessSVN, and today it’s been officially released. If you support a large number of SVN users, and you need to manage permissions, this is the only tool on the market for you today. I highly recommend you get yourself a 30-day [...] Read more »
Subversion DIY write-through-proxy – Lock/Unlock
Something I didn’t cover in my original description was how to handle the distribution of pessimistic locking. This is a bit more of an edge-case than some of the others. You need to make sure you understand your options and their side effects. There is no clean way to replicate the lock. There are two [...] Read more »
Subversion DIY write-through-proxy
A lot of people seem to be eagerly awaiting the SVN 1.5 release so they can start implementing write-through-proxy. Not a lot of people seem to know that this is nothing more than a thin wrapper around existing Apache configuration capabilities. Here’s how you do it the old-fashioned way: Read more »
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