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The Fate of the SVK Tutorials

by Ron Bieber on Monday, June 29, 2009

Chia-liang Kao, the developer and maintainer of the SVK Distributed Version Control System posted a message to the mailing list on May 28th of this year declaring the end of development for the SVK tool.

I know from statistics that the tutorials on this site have been at least helpful, but am curious as to whether I should take them down or not given the fate of the tool. I myself have moved to Git, which has really good integration with Subversion.

So I’m asking you. Do you want the tutorials to stay, or can I get rid of them?

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Japanese Translations of SVK Tutorials.

by Ron Bieber on Sunday, September 17, 2006

Kato Atsushi is making Japanese translations of the SVK tutorials available. These are a work in progress. Part I is up so far. Thanks Kato!

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SVK Aquired by Best Practical

by Ron Bieber on Sunday, June 11, 2006

I’m a little behind on the mailing lists, but I found that on June 5 it was announced that Best Practical Solutions, LLC has aquired SVK. SVK is a distributed version control system written on top of Subversion and provides the ability to mirror Subversion and CVS repositories to your local machine in order to work in a distributed fashion. It also provides advanced branching and merging capabilities far and above what the core Subversion product provides. Read the official announcement here.

Best Practical, LLC produces Open Source incident response, request tracking, and FAQ management software. Chia-liang Kao, the author of SVK, has joined Best Practical as a partner.

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Painless Merging with SVK: An Interview with Chia-liang Kao

by Ron Bieber October 8, 2005 Remaindered

Nalla pointed me to an article called Painless Merging with SVK: An Interview with Chia-liang Kao. In it, the author of SVK talks about why SVK makes source control and merging easier, along with giving some insight into those using SVK in their development environments, including Apple.

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Hey, they’re writing an SVK book!

by Ron Bieber September 3, 2005 SVK

I didn’t notice this before (I haven’t really been to the SVK site in a while), but they are actually writing a full blown SVK book. They make quite clear that the book is still a work in progress, but I’m glad to see this kind of work going on to further explain this great [...]

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SVK 1.0.4 released

by Ron Bieber August 23, 2005 Remaindered

SVK 1.0.4 has been released. This version fixes various locking bugs exposed by the concurrency fix introduced in 1.0.3.

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SVK 1.0.3 introduces bugs to be fixed in 1.0.4.

by Ron Bieber August 23, 2005 Remaindered

SVK 1.0.3 introduces bugs to be fixed in 1.0.4 – The recent release of SVK 1.0.3 introduced “insufficient lockings in a few commands” that were not caught by automated tests. A 1.0.4 release is currently underway.

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SVK 1.0.3 released.

by Ron Bieber August 18, 2005 Remaindered

SVK 1.0.3 released. Read the official announcement.

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SVK 1.02 released.

by Ron Bieber August 3, 2005 Remaindered

SVK 1.02 has been released. Read the announcement.

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James Gosling : Happily Subversive?

by Ron Bieber July 26, 2005 Remaindered

James Gosling: Happily Subversive? – Gosling writes about entertaining Subversion + SVK as the new version control system at Sun.

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SVK Visual Guide 0.2 Available

by Ron Bieber July 18, 2005 SVK

It was announced on the SVK Development mailing list that there is a Visual Guide to SVK being developed. The current version of the document is version 0.2. I have yet to be able to download it (the connection is timing out), however, I thought I’d put the link up here so that I (and [...]

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SVK 1.0.1 released.

by Ron Bieber July 11, 2005 Remaindered

SVK 1.0.1 has been released. This release “fixes many edge cases and also improves performance and memory usage”. Click link for official announcement.

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SVK 1.00 and WordPress 1.5.1 releases.

by Ron Bieber May 9, 2005 SVK

Chia-liang Kao, author of the SVK source control tool, announced the release of SVK 1.0 final today. And if that wasn’t enough for you, the WordPress folks have announced the release of WordPress 1.5.1. Download it now. Information on what has changed is available in the ChangeLog on the codex. Update: 5/10/2005 A quick check [...]

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SVK 1.0 Release Candidate 1 released.

by Ron Bieber April 25, 2005 SVK

Chia-liang Kao announced today that SVK 1.0 Release Candidate 1 has been released. If no show stoppers are reported, this will be the 1.0 release.

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SVK 1.0 Beta 2 released.

by Ron Bieber April 19, 2005 SVK

Yesterday, the release of SVK 1.0 Beta 2 was announced . The announcements list the following changes since Beta 1: Fix keyword translation for undesired characters. [matthewd] Fix svk switch from a removed branch. Don’t trust LML would return a valid encoding that Encode knows. [Eric Gillespie ] Recognize merge-conflict error, so no stacktrace for [...]

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svk 1.0beta1 Released

by Ron Bieber March 30, 2005 SVK

In a message to the SVK dev list, Chia-liang Kao, original author and project maintainer for the SVK version control system, has announced that the software has hit beta stage. According to the message there will be a three week beta period, followed by a two week release candidate release cycle, if everything goes well. [...]

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Explaining the SVK Workflow

by Ron Bieber March 19, 2005 SVK

As I’m beginning to talk to people about the SVK version control tool more, I’m noticing that the concept of mirroring isn’t as obvious to some people as it was to me when I started messing around with it (or maybe I just choose not to remember how unobvious it was), so I thought I [...]

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SVK 0.30 Install for Windows Available

by Ron Bieber March 17, 2005 SVK

An installer for SVK 0.30 for Windows is available here. This is not a standalone .EXE file, but an installer for the SVK tool. Some caveats from looking at it briefly this morning: Make sure you have Subversion installed. I thought I had installed it already on my Windows XP machine – but I was [...]

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SVK 0.30 released.

by Ron Bieber March 1, 2005 SVK

SVK version 0.30 has been released today. You can download it from the main SVK site. You can view the list of changes in the announcement e-mail from the mailing list archive. As an FYI, I just tried to update from CPAN, but received 0.29, so it doesn’t look like it’s hit the mirrors yet.

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Another Satisfied SVK Customer …

by Ron Bieber January 24, 2005 SVK

Matthew Scott read the first part of my SVK tutorial and decided to try it out for himself. Apparently he got some good results, but found a limitation related to svn:externals.

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