How to save SVN

[crossbrowser]

http://www.crossbrowser.net/385/how-to-save-subversion-svn/

[rbanffy]

Why save it? Why commit yourself to a software program if you can do a superset of what it does with another, more robust, one?

[crossbrowser → rbanffy]

I'd consider Subversion to be better than both Git and Mercurial if those changes were made (and implemented well). Subversion has a long history and plenty of tools already interacting with it that make it worth saving.

[gamble]

The whole point of SVN was to bring CVS up-to-date. People use it because, for whatever reason, they want a modern CVS. I'm not sure you can improve it without sacrificing the familiarity that's really SVN's primary asset.

[pkulak]

Or we could just move on...