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asitrack.com

4 points·csmdev··2 comments

Every professional team uses version control. And nothing works better than Subversion for complex commercial projects. So asitrack provides built-in Subversion integration with your repositories and checkouts.

I disagree with this statement. I have found DVCS like Mercurial to be far superior than Subversion for managing complexity in commercial and non-commercial projects. I have increased confidence in branching as branching is a first-class concept (see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2471606/how-and-or-why-is... for a good discussion on why DVCS is better than SVN at branching/merging). I also find being able to locally track changes without sharing them to be a huge benefit.

What are your thoughts on this?

It's only a temporary targeting strategy. We found that people tend to be dismissive when their favorite features are not supported, even though the product is young. So we tailored our texts and descriptions based on the features we currently have.

We do know that different people like different things. And that each version control software has its advantages and disadvantages. This is why asitrack will support both Mercurial and Git in the near future.

But we had to start somewhere and we chose Subversion. And for now nothing works better because it's the only one we support. :)

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