Oooh the excitement is palpable
Subversion (or SVN to its friends) is the software that the developers here at NixonMcInnes use to track the source code that they write. Each time some code is written or changed, it is ‘committed’ to SVN for safe keeping. Well the big excitement here is that we’re fast approaching the 10,000th code commit to SVN. I’m sure you’ll join us in cherishing this important milestone. As Steve emailed to the team this morning:
Hi techies
As I’m sure you are all only too aware, our 10,000th SVN commit is now imminent! These are exciting times!
We are all no doubt waiting with baited breath to see who will commit the coveted 10,000th revision! Fortunately, my friends, we can all follow the event, as it unravels, right here: http://twitter.com/devden
A lot of hard work has gone into these 10000 commits, so, what say we have a couple of beers to celebrate this momentous occasion? It will have to be on the day of the 10,000th commit which, of course, could be any day now! It goes without saying; there will be a prize for the proud new owner of revision 10000 and, who knows, maybe even a small consolation prize for the hapless soul left clutching revision 9999.
Good luck everyone!
Steve
Tom wrote this on 03.06.08 – 10 comments
It's filed in the Development, Funny, NixonMcInnes box
On June 3rd, 2008 at 10:01 am, Steve responded:
As of 10 o’clock this morning, we are a mere 24 commits away from 10000 — I can barely contain myself! :)
On June 3rd, 2008 at 10:27 am, Tom responded:
Why’s the devden Twitter feed protected?
On June 3rd, 2008 at 11:56 am, Hendrik responded:
What, you’re using a single repository for all your projects?
On June 3rd, 2008 at 12:24 pm, Steve responded:
@Hendrik, yea one SVN repository, each project is just a folder in SVN, with trunk/tags/branches under that.
On June 3rd, 2008 at 7:52 pm, Hendrik responded:
What’s wrong with you?! :P
Have you had a look at git like all the other cool kids? It’s not as accessible as SVN (yet?), but actually works really well in a distributed environment. It abandons the 100% linear, revision based setup SCMs like SVN use and that will bit you in the behind at some point, making branching and merging a much more complex operation than they should be.
Only problem with it right now is that it doesn’t have a Windows client as great as TortoiseSVN, which may be a deal-break in an agency environment.
On June 3rd, 2008 at 9:05 pm, Steve responded:
Haha, yea, I’ve heard the git hype — I’m sure some of it’s justified, I’d like to take a look sometime. There are a few TortoiseSVN fans here (myself included) so could be a bit of a wrench to switch though!
On June 3rd, 2008 at 9:07 pm, Steve responded:
(BTW, Tom — devden feed is protected as we’re using http://www.grouptweet.com/ to broadcast messages across the dev team)
On June 4th, 2008 at 9:22 am, Trevor May responded:
Don’t worry, we’ll let everyone know on the regular twitter feed as well. I’m certain you’re all biting your nails with anticipation…
On June 4th, 2008 at 2:46 pm, Hendrik responded:
Steve, don’t give in to the hype. git rocks, and personally, I couldn’t go back to SVN for my own projects, but SVN is still really good and definitely has its place. And yes, in some scenarios it will be the better choice, as it’s generally easier to grok.
If some of your developers are interested in learning/using git, it can be used together with an existing SVN repository, giving you most of git’s advantages while still retaining a central SVN-powered repository.
On June 7th, 2008 at 1:21 pm, Matthew Hill responded:
!!? You lot need to get out of that Dev Den a bit more!
;-)
Still, I probably contributed a fair few to that total. Do I get a slice of cake?