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Differences with CVS:
- Slow. While CVS isn't the fastest animal, I found some actions in Subversion even slower. And sometimes Subclipse just leaves you waiting up to ten seconds when for example a conflict is detected.
- In the Synchronization perspective, you can't update a whole directory. Well, you can, but it doesn't disappear from the file list. You'll have to select the separate files as well.
- When entering the Team Synchronize perspective, it happened once that although the "Incoming/Outgoing mode" was selected, only the incoming files were displayed. Switching to "Incoming Mode" and back again showed everything.
- In the Synchronization perspective, sometimes you review changes in a file and decide they should be left out. Funny thing is, you can't right-click and select 'override and update'. It's greyed out for whatever reason.
- When the repository contains a newer version, you often synchronize the file and choose 'override and commit' with the CVS plugin. With Subclipse, you synchronize, choose 'Mark as merged' and then commit.
- Whenever an error occurs (for example, you tried to commit a file which had conflicts), a little exclamation mark is displayed at the left side of the filename. You always need to right-click and choose 'Mark resolved' before you can continue.
Good things:
- You can just press 'Cancel' in whatever action -- Subversion rolls back since it uses transactions. With Eclipse's CVS plugin, this isn't possible (and with good reason).