Something I just can’t wrap my head around is the sheer brittleness of development with a Subversion repository. While I do realize that this technology is way younger than the old cvs, it just boggles that mind what kind of crazy bugs you come across.
My pet peeve was this one bug, where you’d delete a package and try to commit and your server tells you that your directory is out of sync. I only now discovered that “out of sync” means you’ll have to “svn update” the parent folder of your deleted packages to be able to commit the delete. See the developer comments on this here – the gist of it: it’s not a bug, it’s a feature. Oh brother.
I guess I’ll have to give mercurial, git or some other versioning system a try in the next project. SVN just makes me want to cry.
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