Any former SVK users on this list?

[Jim Hague]

In article <919529696 at web.de>, Marko Käning  <mk-lists at email.de> wrote:
>> 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.

And the Debian packages worked well, too. But one of the platforms I
wanted to use it on was AIX.

As it happens, I was using it to mirror a repository. From other
comments, it sounds like this is tricky one, so maybe my problems
were reflections of that. Furthermore, I was using plain SVN for
most of the repo interaction, turning to SVK for mirroring.

>> 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"...

Now, I may just be exposing my ham-fistedness at using svk, and
currently the Debian packages are broken so I can't easily check,
but since I was mirroring I needed to 'svk smerge' between the
repos. If you're mergeing, 'svk smerge' needs '-I' to stop it happening.