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TortoiseSVN and Subversion 1.5
A lot of people asked us about TortoiseSVN and its plans for merge tracking. For those of you who do not know, TortoiseSVN is a Subversion client for Windows users. It plugs into the Windows Shell and...
View ArticleNominate Subversion for developer.com product of the year
Today is the last day developer.com accepts nominations for its “Product of the year 2008″ award. Let’s all go to the nomination page and enter Subversion in these categories: Development Tool of the...
View ArticleWhat about branching and merging?
I’ve had the pleasure of participating in two recent webinars on the topic of branching and merging particularly in the context of the pending 1.5 release with merge tracking. The first webinar,...
View ArticleChanges made from Subversion 1.4.x to 1.5 – A command line point of view
Over the past months we blogged a lot about Subversion 1.5 and its new capabilities. People often ask: “Can you show us the changes from 1.4.x to 1.5 on the command line?” I’ve created a PDF that...
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Branching Strategy Questioned
It is an exciting time for Subversion as its adoption continues at a dizzying pace in enterprises. I’m out there helping that adoption so I’m a bit late in posting the questions and answers I promised...
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Subversion 1.4.6 Universal OS X Binaries Available
New Subversion 1.4.6 Universal binaries for Mac OS X are now available for download from openCollabNet. Compared to my 1.4.4 release, there are some changes based on feedback from users worth...
View ArticleSubversion 1.5 alpha2 released
The Subversion project has issued an alpha2 release on the path to the final GA. The next release might be alpha3, it might be beta1, that depends on the feedback we get from testers. One thing is...
View ArticleMirror Management: How Often Should I Sync?
A CollabNet customer submitted the following question to us recently: We set up mirrors of several Subversion repositories which CollabNet hosts for us. I have a question regarding the frequency of...
View ArticleAnkhSVN 2.0 Nightly Builds Available
As you read this, AnkhSVN is under active development for a 2.0 release scheduled shortly after Subversion 1.5. Things have changed a lot over the last few months in the AnkhSVN world and time has come...
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Comparing Git reflog with TeamForge-Git History Protection
Can history be changed… and why should I care? In Git version control system it is possible to change history (e.g. to remove accidentally added files which are big/confidential/infringing), or...
View ArticleChange Set Based Merges in Subversion
Hopefully you have already read my post from last week, Subversion merge made easy. In that post, I linked to information on the new CollabNet Merge client that we are building for Subversion 1.5....
View ArticleSubversion 1.5 WebDAV Write-Thru Proxies
Yesterday at the Pre-SubConf Subversion Workshop in Munich, I presented a short bit about a new Subversion 1.5 feature — WebDAV write-thru proxy support. This feature allows for a Subversion server...
View ArticleCompiling JavaHL On Mac OS X
Usually compiling JavaHL is pretty simple: just follow the directions mentioned in the source code. Not on OS X though, there is an anomaly on OS X when running "make javahl" or "make...
View ArticleSubversion Repository Layout
I see a lot of questions asked about “What is the recommended repository layout?”, “What does trunk mean?”, or: “What is the significance of trunk?”. This post will try to answer those questions and...
View ArticleSingle Repository or Many?
My previous blog entry discussed the issue of repository layout. This entry will try to answer the question of whether you should have one repository per project or a single repository that houses all...
View ArticleSubversion party at CollabNet
Do you live in the Bay Area, or are you going to JavaOne? CollabNet is organizing a success party for Subversion. Join members of the Subversion team at CollabNet’s headquarters in Brisbane (just south...
View ArticleWhat shall we talk about?
Recently, our founder and CTO Brian Behlendorf decided to step back a bit. He is still around but turned over the CTO cubicle to me. Quite coincidentally, but pretty much at the same time, CollabNet...
View ArticleAre Detailed Log Messages Really Necessary?
The Subversion open source project has earned a reputation for paying close attention to its processes, and doing its best to find that "sweet spot" where as much information as possible is harvested...
View ArticleIntroducing Merge Tracking
Any branching scheme requires the consideration of merging. Up until now, Subversion facilitates merges but does not record them as such in its history information. That is, Subversion does not...
View ArticleMerge tracking in 1.5
As I mentioned in my previous post, the Subversion project has identified many requirements based on input from both the open source community and from the enterprise data collected by CollabNet from...
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