VSS was bad but at least I know how to work around it. It shouldn't be this hard to have basic source control and shouldn't require hours of work to ... read all
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VSS was bad but at least I know how to work around it. It shouldn't be this hard to have basic source control and shouldn't require hours of work to ... read all
It's not pleasant to setup or fight with. It's supposed to be a versioned repository, but it eats time up with confusing messages when there should be no issue. Telling ... read all
Piece of shit doesn't update properly, Bill Portelli can suck my balls read all
One of the most counter intuitive utility. What does it mean? It means that 1. svn cannot be used without reading a lot of documentation 2. any new situation requires ... read all
Because I've just finished a Perforce project, and using Subversion is like moving from Beverly Hills to the slums of Mumbai. I feel dirty read all
Because it can't friggin' cope with a partial, failed check out from a drop-out due to Internet connectivity failing you. Sure, you can do a svn cleanup, but as often ... read all
Tree conflicts where they are not warranted. This thing wastes a lot of time and money. I've used it for a decade and I hate it's guts. read all
So much time lost. Trivial error messages. 3-hours business to delete a single directory. read all
SVN has to be the most counter-intuitive source control system I have ever used. Really difficult to do simple things. Breaks all the time ("please execute the cleanup command..."). Absolute ... read all
the f____ merge info recorded in the property of elements .... what a poor software design for a merging tool... read all
hate it, hate it, hate it! I could go on about it for hours, but I'll just say: worst. version control. ever. read all
I hate subversion because you cannot rely upon information that is displayed. It is as simple as that. read all
"But it's free guys! It'll save us tons of money!" So's the shit that comes out my dog's ass. Eating it may appear cheaper up front than say eating out ... read all
It is fucking insane. I was passed on SVN because I hate buggy TFS, and ending up hating even more SVN. Meanwhile TFS goes up with usability. read all
It doesn't have a client install from source option. I have to install fucking apache and mysql and neon. Seriously, what the fuck is neon! read all
Subversion is God-awful poky old shit. For Windows, they don't even provide working binaries. Compiling it was horrible, took hours, assimilated my computer and I've no idea if it worked ... read all
.svn everywhere, breaks sometimes without a reason usable merging? lol not with svn read all
Because it's a pain in the ass, fucking command line shit, with stupid ui clients, and because it's anti-windows people who propagate it, and because YOU HAVE TO HAVE A ... read all

I hate Subversion.
26 Mar at 09:39 PM by chriswallace on Twitter - 5,087 followers - Flag
In software development, Subversion is a version-control system initiated in 1999 by CollabNet Inc.
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