[Adium-devl] Version Control - To change or not to change? THAT is the question!

[Evan Schoenberg]

On Jan 2, 2008, at 1:29 AM, Augie Fackler wrote:

>> My summation: "It *is* broke, you just don't realise it."
>
> I don't think assuming it's broken is safe - honestly, merging
> *works*, just not as cleanly as we'd like. That said, DVCS does offer
> some (reasonably, IMO) compelling features that are nice-to-haves, not
> "missing features" that imply brokenness in Subversion.

'Broken' might be the wrong word, but it's very close to the truth.  I  
definitely feel that the current version control system (svn 1.4)  
actively discourages (by complexity and fragility) microbranches [and  
macrobranches for that matter; I really am not looking forward to  
branching trunk to adium-1.2] and that, in so doing, it stifles  
development.

-Evan