Alexis's Blog on TReCX

A few days ago, sourceforge announced that after running a 6 week beta programme, they intend to offer Subversion as an alternative version control system to CVS. You can see the full announcement here.

Seeing as we have yet to commit any coding artefacts to any kind of repository, it being desirable to host one's artefacts at sourceforge and regarding Subversion as inherently a "good thing", it seemed like a no-brainer to opt to use this; we didn't even have a CVS tree to import!
It's a while since I originally read about Subversion, but there were a number of things that appealed to me about it such as being able to rename files without losing the history (a real boon when refactoring and removal of a disincentive to do this!). Branching and tagging is supposed to be much cheaper (computationally speaking) so again disuaders from doing this are removed. As Eclipse is our IDE of choice, we'll probably turn this into our Subversion client via the Subclipse plugin.