Excursus

Subversion 1.5 is out. This is a major release that promised to address many of the problems with merging. New features include:

• Merge tracking (foundational)
• Sparse checkouts (via new –depth option)
• Interactive conflict resolution
• Changelist support
• Relative URLs, peg revisions in svn:externals
• Cyrus SASL support for ra_svn and svnserve
• Improved support for large deployments on FSFS, via sharding
• Improved FSFS optimizability, via immutable file isolation
• WebDAV transparent write-through proxy
• Improvements to copy and move
• Speed improvements, cancellation response improvements
• Easier to try experimental ra_serf DAV access module
• API changes, improvements, and much language bindings work
• More than 150 new bug fixes, enhancements

If you are still using subversion, or if subversion suits your needs better than distributed alternatives, then this is a must have release.