[pmwiki-users] Proposal: version control for cookbooks recipes

[marc]

Crisses said...
> On Oct 24, 2006, at 3:10 PM, marc wrote:
> > Now, if only TortoiseSVN was available on Linux ;-)
> 
> While the right applet tool might make SVN as smart as a good sharp  
> knife, and I've installed and attempted to use SVN (frankly, never  
> really for programming -- it's a long story), I never find it easy  
> nor intuitive to use. I always end up forgetting to add things  
> manually (whether on the command line or in a contextual menu), and  
> I'm not on Windows.

One of TSVN's features is that it reminds you of non-versioned files 
when you commit. So no need to remember to add them.

> Primative, but it works.  SVN really IS the bright  
> way to do it, but for people who aren't CVS-born&bred, SVN is still  
> BETTER but maybe not as downright "intuitive" as some people might  
> want to think. 

Intuitive is a much misused word - like many other words ;-) - but I 
certainly agree that SVN needs to be learned, at least the client you 
use to manage it does. For a start, anyone coming from the copying 
stable thinks of their 'master' as the thing they copy from, whereas 
with SVN the 'master' is in the repository - it's not rocket science, 
but it's a shift in thinking.

> I find the entire mental layout & execution of SVN annoying, while I  
> find the idea and philosophy brilliant.  For me, it's like trying to  
> wear my boots backwards: I'm not entirely adverse, but I'm going to  
> be resistive and it's going to be painful.

Maybe you've always worn your boots backwards and the difficulty you are 
having is wearing them the right way round :-)

-- 
Best,
Marc