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Malgré l'annonce faite le 1er avril, c'est bel et bien possible, et le support des commit arrive aussi, incroyable.

"Handy PHP5 tool which mirrors two SVN repositories by reproducing each and every commit

"the whole svn:externals thing seems a bit like a hack, or at least not a first class citizen in SVN land"

Subversion™ is the fastest growing version control system for distributed development teams and its rapid adoption is a phenomenon in small and large organizations. Recently evaluated to be the Sole Leader among Standalone SCM Solutions by Forrester Research, it is taking the developer world by storm. During this webcast, you will learn about the exciting new features coming out in the next release, Subversion 1.5, including merge tracking. Learn how to implement branching strategies that best fit your organization, and utilize merge tracking functionality to integrate changes. Learn from real life examples of branching and merging, so that you can accelerate development within your enterprise using Subversion’s new features.

Subversion 1.5 will support Merge Tracking.

Most software version control systems provide mechanisms for branching into multiple lines of development and merging source code from one development line into another. However, the techniques, policies and guidelines for using these mechanisms are often misapplied or not fully understood. This is unfortunate, since the use or misuse of branching and merging can make or break a parallel software development project. Streamed Lines is a pattern language for organizing related lines of development into appropriately diverging and converging streams of source code changes.

Because merge isn't trivial.

Starting with Subversion 1.3.1, our packages will be built containing Universal Binaries with native support for both PowerPC and Intel Macs

As CVS is quite dated and Subversion (SVN) introduced some handy features (atomic transactions, Apache piggybacking, more convenient branching/tagging, tons of other improvements), we chose to go with SVN. The big question was: how to use it correctly?

Subversion est un outil open source de contrôle de versions. En d'autres termes, il vous permet de mettre en place un serveur de stockage qui garde en mémoire toutes les versions successives de vos fichiers.