From pdalgd at gmail.com  Thu May 27 00:38:38 2010
From: pdalgd at gmail.com (Peter Dalgaard)
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 00:38:38 +0200
Subject: [Rd] SVN vs DVCS
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Antonio, Fabio Di Narzo wrote:

> Beside, people working simultaneously on the same files and needing
> svn to tell them of that? And that happening often? I would hope on
> better human interaction and work division, rather than svn conflicts
> checks. But...
>> [Note: again, this is rather about personal preferences I suspect]
> indeed.

It actually happens quite often. Sometimes because two people in, say,
Canada and Oxford fix the same bug report (usually in nearly the same
way), but more typically because ALL our changes are recorded in the
same NEWS file.

Besides, SVN conflict are almost always trivial to resolve: Either a
matter of selecting one of two changes or keeping both.

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[Rd] SVN vs DVCS
Peter Dalgaard