[python-committers] Is 3.1 open?

[Nick Coghlan]

Benjamin Peterson wrote:
> 2010/3/17 Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com>:
>> Short version: SVN and other non-DVCS systems don't store enough (or the
>> right) metadata to support merging properly, so branching becomes
>> unnecessarily painful.
> 
> This isn't really true these days given svn merge --reintegrate.

File renaming/moving still doesn't work properly though:
http://blogs.open.collab.net/svn/2008/07/subversion-merg.html

There are limits to what you can do without tracking the original
changesets. A DVCS does that, but SVN works by calculating diffs between
different revisions without really caring about how those revisions came
about.

Cheers,
Nick.

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