Any former SVK users on this list?

[Sean Russell]

On Friday 27 June 2008 06:39:08 pm Georg wrote:
> Svk by itself is reasonable, IMHO.  But as soon as you try combining it
> with SVN it gets messy.  E.g. if you try to get sophisticated, use
> svk for mirroring an SVN repo then access the mirror with native SVN tools
> like Tortoise or an Eclipse SVN plugin. There are hard rules
> never to forget or you are in trouble. And the SVN clients running against
> the mirror will be isolated, no integration with the mirror functionality
> -- you have to do that from the command line with svk.

Yeah, I have to second that; I'd like to add that the whole mirroring use case 
is the main (IMO) motivation for using SVK, and it's the most difficult to 
use.

The only advantage to SVK that I can see is that SVK allows you to mirror into 
subdirectories.  For example, if you have ProjectA/subDir1/subDir2 and you 
want to mirror that to ProjectB/subDir2, you can achieve this with SVK; it is 
much more difficult to do this with Mercurial unless you re-layout your 
entire project to use forest.

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