On Monday 08 January 2007 06:12, you wrote:
On 1/8/07, Luke-Jr [email protected] wrote:
The problem with Subversion for [complete system backup], and why it won't work too great outside of configs, is that it doesn't store owner/group or permissions at all.
shouldn't be too hard to add. As well as some repo-repo rsync scripting such as available (for sale? not sure) from wandisco. Or an 'svn ignore' primitive that adds file names to the ignore property :)
Subversion is based on the concept of a single repository. If you want multiple repositories, I'd suggest patching Darcs up to support history.
the problem with svn patches is that everyone who uses svn is too busy working on whatever they're using it for to be motivated to add incremental improvements :)
Svn works "good enough" for what a lot of people need. People who need more usually need a lot more, and move to Darcs, Git, or something more powerful.