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by Jason Sankey.
Original Post: Finally: Merge Tracking in Subversion
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If you’re going to build a “compelling replacement for CVS”, then you need to do two key things:
Make commits atomic, with proper changesets
Handle merging properly (e.g. support repeated, bi-directional and cherry-picked merges)
Sure, there are other things to improve on, and there is further room for innovation, but these are the two most fundamental features that [...]