subversion - under the covers

Greetings Mr Machols,

One of the things in CVS that appeals to me is its simplicity. The ability to get into the repository and hack around (and screw things up) if there are problems is fantastic.

Does Subversion let you get into its guts as easily, and do you discuss this in your book?

thanks,
Jeff

Hi Jeff! I agree with you that that hacking in CVS is quite nice. I am trying to use subversion for some open source projects I am managing but till the moment I haven't got the oportunity to get to hack step. However I don't expect the things to be as easy as in CVS as subversion is using a db (if I am not wrong the default is the embedded Berkley DB).

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One of the great features of Subversion is the triggers/hook scripts. This allows you to "hack" your way into the repository pretty easily. You can do pre/post hooks on the entire repo or just a transaction (there is a chapter in book covering hooks).

One of the great features in Subversion is how simple it is. By having everything versioned (well..almost) you can put a lot of controls in place and the commands lend themselves to scripting very nicely.

Excellent. Looks like I'll have to cut over soon.

-Jeff-