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I hate Subversion

I really really hate it. Every time I try to do anything USEFUL with it, like try out an idea in a new branch and then merge the bits of that branch that worked out back to my main line, it barfs all over me with totally crap-ass error messages that nobody could ever, EVER understand.

Also, despite their claims to the contrary in the documentation, svn will happily shit all over your working copy when a switch fails. So much for atomic operations.

I’ve had it. I’m switching to Mercurial.

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  • At 2008.06.23 01:22, xAccipiterx said:

    I’m trying to contact lj user, queenrayven, later known as doaditty after losing touch over the past few years. Do you, lj user tetious, know how I could contact her??

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    • At 2008.06.23 14:28, Sjon said:

      Atomic operations tend to blow up and leave fallout all over your code.

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