Subversion 1.0 released
by Kevin Dangoor
Finally, and with typical slashdot fanfare, Subversion 1.0 has been released. This is not your typical 1.0, because Subversion has been in development for a long time before being branded 1.0. There are already graphical clients and an Eclipse plugin. Let’s hope those mature quickly to be as seamless as their CVS counterparts, but with the great characteristics that Subversion brings (directory versioning, constant time tagging/branching, WebDAV, etc).
Have you actually used it? Do you have anything interesting to say about it?
No. However, it’s a project that I’ve been watching for some time, waiting for it to mature. I do plan to investigate it, though, to see if
1) It’s as nicely integrated with Eclipse as CVS
2) It works with Anthill (or possibly another automated build tool)
Here’s something interesting: Urban Code says that they plan to support Subversion in Anthill sometime after the 1.0 release, when people are likely to start using it.
BTW, if *you* have something interesting to say about it, feel free.
i’ve been using it at the 0.32 version with good results. pretty stable and re-used quite a bit of my CVS knowledge.
my setup was apache 2 with the svn mod and mod_ssl. i also setup the python viewcvs which already has support for subversion repositories. although out-of-the-box subversion comes with repository browsing, viewcvs provides diffs and other niceties. on the client side (windows), i’ve been using the command line and tortoiseSVN.
the setup took forever. hopefully that’s not the same. i haven’t tried the eclipse plugins since they do some stuff with JNI. i’d like to wait for pure java plugin.
the constant time branching/tagging/copy directory is just awesome.