On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 11:04 PM, Nathan Hartman <hartman.nat...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Jul 19, 2017, at 10:08 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Yup. I don't do it every week, or even every month. Frankly, as >> Subversion has been falling in popularity, > > I think that's like the BSD is dying myth. While it's true that hype, Linus's > blessing, and the availability of GitHub have taken a big chunk of the F/OSS > world by storm, there are still plenty of people, projects, and businesses > that use Subversion. We recently evaluated other systems which shall remain > nameless just to make sure we're on top of goings on in our industry and our > experiences reaffirmed why we use Subversion. In a decade of use, zero > problems. It's mature, it does what it's supposed to do, and it's simple to > use. We like it. So do numerous other people.
I didn't say Subversion was dying. I said it was falling in popularity, which is consistent with the surveys I can find. And dear lordie, it's consistent with my professional and amateur software development experience. I've seen *one* new repo started or built from scratch under Subversion since 2006. I've seen approximately 1000 software projects or repos started or built from scratch under another source control system, which shall remain unnamed but which hosts my Subversion RPM building tools, I've also helped with roughly half a dozen funded projects migrating *away* from Subversion in that time. I help out new admins and users on the group out of appreciation, not because it's funded or because the userbase is growing. The local HTTP credential storage is a longstanding sore point, I admit, which is why I *didn't* harp on it. I mentioned it as a specific security issue, in passing, which a new HTTPS Subversion administrator may not have considered. And I mentioned it as leverage to migrate away away from the httpd server integration. The httpd server integration has traditionally been one of the most awkward parts of Subversion server support, as the original poster was noticing quite painfully.
