środa, 4 marca 2009

ClearCase vs SVN and why SVN sucks!

Working as a consultant in a big company You can always learn new exciting thing. Few days ago I have learned why SVN sucks! Company I am working for is using ClearCase as a version control system. I need to admit that I did not have much experience with it so I asked our Senior Developer to help me with reverting changes.


SD : Well You can not do this unless You have made a label.
ME : You mean I can not just revert project to a state from particular date?
SD : You can only revert Your activities. Entire project can only be reverted to a label.

Wow. What a great tool for which You need to pay just 4000 .

ME : Hmm are You sure? It should not be that hard.
SD : Oh You know this is a tool for distributed development , other developers could have checked out their activities ,etc ... I is not that easy to revert that changes.
ME : Well after working with subversion I get the impression it is not the rocket science.

And then I was enlighten. I learned why svn sucks!

SD : Well this is because subversion works different way , whenever You make any changes You commit entire project , so it is easy to revert the changes ...

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