“… but there’s a little catch”
September 24th, 2004
With all due respect to the Subversion folks, many of whom appear from over here to be very good hackers, I realized that they had completely blown it. Subversion is a dog. It’s a horrible, horrible design based on a few very good ideas. It’s hard, I think, for casual observers to recognize the problems with Subversion given the good ideas it contains, the high skill level of the developers, and the good job of project management they do, but the problems were enough to prevent me from just asking to join the Subversion project.
As seen on Slashdot: Tom Lord interviewed. (The rest of the interview isn’t as inflammatory as this passage, but it is as thought-provoking.) He’s the guy behind GNU arch—yes, that arch.