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[Luke-Jr]

On Monday 08 January 2007 06:12, you wrote:
> On 1/8/07, Luke-Jr <luke at dashjr.org> wrote:
> > The problem with Subversion for [complete system backup], and why it
> > won't work too great outside
> > of configs, is that it doesn't store owner/group or permissions at all.
>
> shouldn't be too hard to add.  As well as some repo-repo rsync scripting
> such as available (for sale? not sure) from wandisco.  Or an 'svn ignore'
> primitive that adds file names to the ignore property :)

Subversion is based on the concept of a single repository. If you want 
multiple repositories, I'd suggest patching Darcs up to support history.

> the problem with svn patches is that everyone who uses svn is too busy
> working on whatever they're using it for to be motivated to add incremental
> improvements :)

Svn works "good enough" for what a lot of people need. People who need more 
usually need a lot more, and move to Darcs, Git, or something more powerful.