Articles from May 2007



Subversion binaries community project

New community project focuses on the creation of Subversion binaries and bindings and improving build scripts.

A generation question

I must admit that I’m new to blogging and these lines have been written on plain old paper first – yes, I was a COBOL developer in the early days of my professional career and I still write a lot of things in upper case. When I made the move to a small start-up named [...]

CollabNet Subversion update

What’s going on with CollabNet Subversion?

Universal Mac OS X Subversion Binaries Available

Subversion 1.4.3 Command Line Client Binaries are now available for download from openCollabNet, the online community for Subversion users and CollabNet customers.

Merge tracking in 1.5

As I mentioned in my previous post, the Subversion project has identified many requirements based on input from both the open source community and from the enterprise data collected by CollabNet from its customers. The requirements as well as the functional and design specifications are available on the Subversion project site. Subversion’s upcoming 1.5 release [...]

Introducing Merge Tracking

Any branching scheme requires the consideration of merging. Up until now, Subversion facilitates merges but does not record them as such in its history information. That is, Subversion does not automatically record, or track, what change sets have been merged where and what revisions were created as a result of merging.  To work around the [...]

Are Detailed Log Messages Really Necessary?

The Subversion open source project has earned a reputation for paying close attention to its processes, and doing its best to find that "sweet spot" where as much information as possible is harvested from its contributors without frustrating them with overbearing rules and regulations. One area where this plays out is in the composition of [...]

What shall we talk about?

Recently, our founder and CTO Brian Behlendorf decided to step back a bit. He is still around but turned over the CTO cubicle to me. Quite coincidentally, but pretty much at the same time, CollabNet purchased SourceForge Enterprise Edition from VA Software, bringing the world’s two premier commercial web-hosted software collaboration environments under a single [...]

Subversion party at CollabNet

Do you live in the Bay Area, or are you going to JavaOne? CollabNet is organizing a success party for Subversion. Join members of the Subversion team at CollabNet’s headquarters in Brisbane (just south of San Francisco). It will be an informal party but we’ll have some Subversion related things to show as well, like [...]