Ketan's Musings

Given git and mercurial the title should have been “Are you still using subversion?”; but anyway.

SVN 1.5 has been around for a while now, and provides a range of new features that help improve the overall experience and makes SVN suck less.

I’ve opened this bug to request that projects that want to migrate to svn 1.5 at eclipse.org have the option to do so. The existing SVN is running on a SVN 1.4.0. Please drop in your comments on this bug.

While working on some ant build scripts today. A lot of custom batch files that were being exec’ed from within ant builds; batch files that would perform svn updates, reverts and commits, among other svn actions.

A good alternative would be to use SVNAnt (some snippets follow):

<svn>
  <delete>
    <fileset dir="workingcopy/deleteTest">
      <include name="**/*.del"/>
    </fileset>
  </delete>
  <commit message="commit deleted files"
       dir="workingcopy/deleteTest"/>
</svn>

<svn>
  <update dir="dir/to/update/" recurse="true" />
</svn>