GitHub Sunsetting Subversion Support

Post by sicp-enjoyer » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 1:59 AM UTC

tom_ wrote: post #165

no_wizard wrote: post #119

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Just because I don't get to talk about this much, as far as centralized version control goes, I liked Perforce when I used it. It could store everything: assets, builds, source code all in one, and you could do fine grain checkouts (I think git structures this as shallow clones but they're hard to get right). It also let you put permissions on the repository itself, so if you didn't have the correct ACLs you couldn't…

Perforce is still popular with games developers. It scales pretty well, even if you have tons of stuff in your depot, and since all the state is on the server the disk space cost locally is just the data. As you say, you can just put everything in there, and use it as your centralized file store for distribution of absolutely everything. Not unusual to have the CI system just commit the results back into Perforce, an…

Post by JadeNB » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 2:05 AM UTC

schacon wrote: post #12

As one of the GitHub cofounders and the brainchild of this particular feature, I want to let everyone know that this is maybe the funniest thing I've ever done. We released this feature and published the announcing blog post, on April Fool's Day, 2010. I remember demoing it to the other GitHub guys and saying how funny it would be if we made this an April Fool's day post as though it was a big stupid joke but then it…

Post by sicp-enjoyer » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 2:07 AM UTC

CJefferson wrote: post #30

stouset wrote: post #18

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I suspect GP knows this, but there's no way to go back and see what the branch ref was at a prior point in time. I believe they wish that refs themselves were versioned. And yes, I know they're kept in the reflog. But that is short-lived and (I believe) local rather than eternal and global like everything else in git.

Yes, as you say, I'd have to write the commit names down, and eventually they would get garbage collected. You could tag, but then you are just polluting your tag namespace with old branches.

Post by ivanmontillam » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 2:26 AM UTC

neallindsay wrote: post #108

I remember when they added Subversion support; I thought it was hilarious. And it worked! This quote from the linked blog post made me raise my eyebrows though: > In 2010…it was not yet clear that distributed version control would eventually take over, and even less clear that Git would be the dominant system. I think it was actually extremely clear that Git would win. It had a guaranteed audience by virtue of hostin…

Post by password4321 » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 2:29 AM UTC

haileys wrote: post #151

snickerbockers wrote: post #130

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i'm still angry at mozilla and google for deprecating that, being able to set up a simple anonymous FTP server and send normies a link to it that they can open in their browsers was really convenient. Now if I want to use FTP i have to explain to them that they have to copy it into the windows file explorer or download filezilla.

Why not an HTTP server with a directory index? FTP is a pretty clunky protocol: it's round-trip heavy, not friendly to NAT on the client-side when you don't use PASV, not friendly to firewalls on the server-side when you do. I'm not sure what benefits there are to it these days.