[TxMt] Re: fixating on Subversion

[Eric O'Brien]

*chuckle*

It's not so much that I'm having "difficulty" with subversion as that  
I'd just like to be able to use a visual tool when I need to  
significant rearrange my files that are under version control.  I  
believe a API for subversion has been published, so is there a  
technical reason not to expect a visual interface?

I don't know enough to be "fixated" on Subversion!  Apparently CVS is  
"out" now and SVN is the heir... so that's what I grabbed onto.  I  
may in the future be working on projects where I'm not the only one  
messing with things, so I'd like to keep that option open.  I've  
never heard of rdiff-backup... I'll check it out.

Thanks!

eo

On Feb 25, 2006, at 10:52 PM, Trevor Harmon wrote:

> On Feb 25, 2006, at 9:32 PM, Eric O'Brien wrote:
>
>> I work as a "team" of one, so any rearrangements I make in my svn  
>> repository aren't going to disrupt anyone else's work.  It might  
>> well be that I should have a better idea of where I'm going (or  
>> where IT'S going) when I start a project, but that often isn't the  
>> case.
>>
>> I'm not afraid of the command line, but I rarely do much work  
>> there and don't come from a CLI background (unless you include my  
>> CP/M use of about 20 years ago!!).  So the comment "when you need  
>> to move or rename, doing so in Subversion isn't any more difficult  
>> than the Unix mv command" [Trevor Harmon, Feb 25, 2006] doesn't  
>> help me much.
>
> Given the difficulty you're having, I don't see why you're so  
> fixated on Subversion when you're the only one accessing the  
> repository. Why not use a version-tracking backup utility like  
> rdiff-backup? Then you can just do:
>
> rdiff-backup source destination
>
> All of the changes (including moves and renames) will then be taken  
> care of automatically. It works over the Internet, and it can roll  
> back changes to any earlier date, just like Subversion.
>
> You can install it from the unstable tree in Fink.
>
> Trevor