[svk-users] Is svk a real production option?

[Michael Brouwer]

We have been using svk for over 3 years now, and have had very little  
problems with it (the ones we did encounter have since been fixed).   
We switched from cvs directly to svk.  Initially 8 of the 10 people on  
our team started using svk and 2 were using svn.  After about 2 months  
the remaining team members switched to svk as well.  More recently  
various other teams in the company have started using svk as well for  
it's cross repository merge tracking and other features.

As for the book being out of date, that's mostly due to me not having  
had any spare time lately to work on it.

Michael

On Jan 31, 2008, at 9:43 PM, Chris Hecker wrote:

>
> So, I too hate it when people ask this kind of question on a mailing
> list for a tool, but I'm not sure what else to do.  I really don't  
> mean
> it as a troll, I'm seriously asking the question.   I need to make a
> decision soon about whether to use svk as the vc for some projects,  
> and
> I'm getting nervous.  On the face of it, svk's feature list is almost
> perfect for me.  The integration with svn is awesome, the local repo  
> for
> distributed stuff is great, etc.  The only missing thing is
> svn:externals support or something like it, and it looks like the  
> views
> thing might do what I want, I need to look into it more.
>
> But, it seems like 1) a very large number of questions on this list  
> are
> followed up days later with a "uh, hello, does anybody know the
> answer?", 2) the problems that come across seem fairly serious in the
> first place, like unable to merge, or sync, or bad revisions getting  
> in,
> etc., and 3) my own experience with it has been mixed in that I have
> this recurring problem I've posted about where svk st will show a file
> is ready to be updated, but svk up will skip the file, then svk diff
> won't show a diff without an explicit version to diff against, and  
> I've
> gotten no response on it and my next option seems to be to start up  
> the
> perl debugger and try to figure it out myself.  Normally that'd  
> fine, I
> contribute to a lot of open source projects, but for a vc system it's
> not really filling me with confidence.  There also seem to be a fair
> number of replies over the year I've been watching this list like,
> "well, I don't use svk anymore, but have you tried this?"
>
> So anyway, sorry that was long-winded, I just didn't want people to
> think I'm sending this lightly.  I'd really like to use svk, but I'm  
> not
> sure it's ready for prime time, or truly actively supported (the wiki
> seems rarely updated and all over the place, the book hasn't been
> updated since 2005, etc.).
>
> What do others think, including CLK and the Best Practical folks?  I
> hope this is a worthy discussion topic, sorry if it's inappropriate.
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
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