Any former SVK users on this list?

[Marko Käning]

Hi Jim,

> I used SVK for a good 18 months before switching to Mercurial.
> Wild horses wouldn't drag me back. SVK is a bugger to install if
> not pre-packaged, 

well, I installed the pre-packaged binary 2.0.2 for Windows and it worked out of the box.


> given half a chance combines multiple changes
> in one repo into a single change (with concatenated comment)
> in another (which I hate),

As I understood this can only happen if you apply "push -l"...


> and IME would periodically lose track of changes
> already present and bounce a set of changes back and forth between
> two repos.

Oh, I've never seen that so far. Never heard of such a thing, actually. That sounds really bad. Have you got some reference for this? This is a killer!


> As a plain satellite for disconnected working on a Subversion
> repo only, it's OK. Anything more fully distributed and it doesn't cut
> it for me. Mercurial has Just Worked in the same setup. It's a joy.

Well, I'd need only occasionally some disconnected work on my svn repos. Probably it makes sense to stick with SVK, instead of loosing the comfort of just go on with SVN and the old existing repos...

I don't know yet. So far SVK did the simplest transactions for me. I still didn't use it in real life...

Thanks for your comments so far!

Regards,
Marko