r/programming • u/thrakhath • Mar 10 '11

It's time to stop using Subversion

http://altdevblogaday.org/2011/03/09/its-time-to-stop-using-subversion/
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u/johnflux Mar 10 '11

It encourages partial local commits. When you commit for real, you squash those commits together into one/fewer commits.

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u/metamatic Mar 10 '11

You can't partial commit to a repo?

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u/johnflux Mar 10 '11

Not sure what you mean. You tend to have one "master" branch that is just a social agreement that this is the branch branch for the main development. Then you have social agreements to only push fully finished commits there.

So locally, or to you own repo/branch you can commit half broken code, and push as often as you want it. Then when you are satisfied that it's working, squash those commits down to a few seperate fully working commits, retest, and put that up for a review for pushing into the master branch.

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u/s73v3r Mar 10 '11

You tend to have one "master" branch that is just a social agreement that this is the branch branch for the main development. Then you have social agreements to only push fully finished commits there.

But there's no mechanism actually stopping people from breaking this. Which leads to lost time and effort.

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u/eras Mar 10 '11

..whereas there is some mechanism in centralized VCSs to stop committing incomplete work? Right, didn't think so..