I had the unfortunate experience of having to use Subversion again after using Git for a long time. It is amazing how fast I can forget. After renaming a directory at the prompt, and the agony that goes with it, I decided to switch back to Git. $ mv requester sampler # svn agony after [...]

If you use Git locally against a Subversion repository you might run into problems if your project is set up to generate automatic build numbers through the buildnumber-maven-plugin, since the plugin might be setup to get the build numbers from Subversion. Through some use of additional profiles you can work around this.

I’ve been spending some time studying a tool for looking at the structure of code bases. After having tried out some of the more basic possibilities I wanted to go for the finer points and study changes between two versions of code to see what effect my changes made. This is where I realise that [...]

After having had severe problems when committing to the Sourceforge Subversion repos, I stumbled upon what appears to be the solution. The problem was that in the middle of a commit, one file or directory would fail with a 403 (permission denied). In desperation, I would chop up the change set and commit little pieces [...]