Post AdGyUMie4FGN5LJqca by mattrose@fosstodon.org
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(DIR) Post #AdGcIwH9qRlitabmV6 by mirek@rodina-sucha.cz
2023-12-28T11:39:16Z
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I just found out that there are still active projects still using SVN. OMG, why?
(DIR) Post #AdGd6Sozd4yS1Y39Si by djasa@cztwitter.cz
2023-12-28T11:48:12Z
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@mirek i remember one nice feature: per-file permissions. When I was maintaining Czech l10n of one project, I got commit access to po/cs.po but I couldn't commit anything else.
(DIR) Post #AdGdz26Kfzxn4zBGfQ by mkyral@mastodonczech.cz
2023-12-28T11:58:03Z
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@mirek E.g.: JOSM - the Java OpenStreetMap editor still uses svn. There were interesting discussion on mailing list recently.https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/josm-dev/2023-November/008459.html
(DIR) Post #AdGyUMie4FGN5LJqca by mattrose@fosstodon.org
2023-12-28T15:47:49Z
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@mirek svn does way better at dealing with large binaries than git. It’s important for some projects.
(DIR) Post #AdHW73SKuxtr7gkNEm by mcepl@floss.social
2023-12-28T22:04:36Z
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@mirek https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ (they are just now switching).