Subversion

[thebigbigdaddy]

Great, now can someone provide on how to "actually" use subversion?

[yoyuepz]

@thebigbigdaddy Go to China and experience it in real life battle. Its all about deception...

[yoyuepz]

@thebigbigdaddy because this is just a load of bs from dumb down western education..

[MrMMohsen]

Very clear and easy to understand. Thanks a lot for your time and appealing presentation. It's very much appreciated :)

[wandiscoGeorge]

uberSVN makes this even easier to install and use, intuitive UI design and its free to download and use, my thoughts so far are in favour of the tool compared to the raw subversion you get off the wandisco main website. Just google ubersvn to see it or you can go direct ubersvn.com.

[sjwdavies]

This is hilarious guys...

Very clever method of explaining a very complicated topic.

Outstanding

[rqm06]

very entertaining and easy to understand :D Makes me want to do my presentation in the same way

[nishand2d]

Great work guys! Thank you!

[wandisco1]

You can download the FREE, latest, certified Subversion Binaries by the Subversion Developers here: wandisco.com/subversion/os/dow­nloads

Also come and participate in the Subversion Community: subversion.wandisco.com

[raviufor2]

nice work guys... Good one

[mig8447]

Great video guys, a little more quality would be nice, but it's a great work

[CanineFaeces]

So Subversion is a chocolate chip cookie recipe?

[declan3906]

yeah and Anarchy is a fashion label.

[spelud]

I have really enjoyed your presentation. It is very creative and easy to understand. However, there are two controversial uses you have proposed:

- "Easy transfer to other people machines" . This is not the purpose of a Control Version System: could be abused and derive in "oh, please, commit this file, I need it at home. I don't care if it does not compile."

- "Backup". Please, don't use a CVS as backup. Same problem as above: People commiting files that don't work to not lose last changes.

[ThatErikRose]

Yep, you're right on target. Though I didn't produce the video personally, I think what we meant was that backup and ease of transfer are two handy side effects you get in cases where you were going to commit anyway.

Of course, if you go off on a branch, you can feel much freer to commit half-finished stuff, depending on your philosophy.

[ahassan5]

sound is too quite

[Danny77uk]

Excellent! It would also be good to compare subversion with that other major source system people use, Source Safe.

[HappySpaceInvdr]

Well, you have to pay considerable licensing fees to Microsoft for Source Safe and it only works on Windows...

... whereas Subversion is completely free and works on every operating system you can think of (and many you've never heard of).

How's that for a comparison?

[Danny77uk]

If you're assuming I'm a fan of VSS, I'm not. I use svn everyday. However your 'it costs more' analogy is flawed - Perforce is extremely pricey but it also happens to be the best SCM out there.

[HappySpaceInvdr]

I've looked into Perforce before when assessing a large number of version control systems for our company. I really can't see any single killer advantage that persuades me it's worth spending money on Perforce, but everyone's requirements are different I suppose.

[HappySpaceInvdr]

What made you think it was an analogy? It's a fact. You have to pay money for Source Safe, and you don't for Subversion.

So unless the free software is missing some absolutely vital feature that the expensive software has, a comparison is largely pointless.

[digitalsignagewiz]

Great "plain English" intro to subversion -- very fun examples too!!

Keep up the good work Weblion team.