[SciPy-dev] The future of SciPy and its development infrastructure

[Jonathan Guyer]

On Feb 23, 2009, at 11:44 AM, David Cournapeau wrote:

> 50 % of the time I create a
> branch for numpy, I screw up because I need like 10 commands, which  
> fail
> half of the time for stupid errors or time out.

I have no opinion on a switch of SciPy to git or anything else, and  
I'm generally interested in the prospects for distributed version  
control, but I really have to ask, what 10 commands could you possibly  
need to execute to create a branch in svn?