Re: [External] : Re: Can't connect to github anymore

On 1/14/2024 2:52 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2024 at 2:27 PM sean<[email protected]>  wrote:
>> On 2024-01-13 16:11, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>
>>> There are not many compelling reasons
>>> to use Subversion anymore, except the ability to check out only
>>> subdirectories from a branch and the insistence that a single central
>>> repository is the only source of truth.
>> The ability to `svn lock` files is very useful if your repo has a lot of
>> non-mergeable files, like say MS Office documents.
> I have never once found that feature to be useful since I first used
> Subversion back around 2001.  Mind you, I'd treat Word documents as
> binaries objects and not consider them suitable for incremental
> changes in a source control system.

There are numerous documentation teams who I have worked with over the 
years who would differ with this. Version control is essential for their 
files (they may not be able to directly compare them, but they can tell 
when changes were made and who made them), and having locking is the 
only way to make this work (which is one of the reasons why Git will 
never work for them).

However, I would agree with you that binaries generated from some other 
source document is not appropriate for version control (e.g. checking in 
PDF versions of documents), but Word documents are the primary source 
documents, therefore needing version control.

Before I got these teams on to SVN, they were storing everything in a 
shared folder with numerous old copies of each document laying around 
(e.g. foo.doc, foo.doc.old, foo.doc.1jun2013, foo.doc.bak, etc), which 
is an accident waiting to happen.