Subversion roadmap

Someone asked on Stack Overflow:

Recently there was a post to the subversion dev mailing list suggesting a vision and roadmap for the future of Subversion. As a result, I’m posting this to elicit some suggestions and contributions from the users of Subversion. Any comments are welcome, and I shall feedback a synopsis with a link to this question to the dev mailing list.

On the post, several ideas were suggested as being “very nice to have” and are offered as the starting point of a future roadmap. These are:

  • Obliterate
  • Shelve/Checkpoint
  • Repository-dictated Configuration
  • Rename Tracking
  • Improved Merging
  • Improved Tree Conflict Handling
  • Enterprise Authentication Mechanisms
  • Forward History Searching
  • Log Message Templates

So given all the above, what features in subversion, or missing from subversion, do you think could be improved or added?

I posted the following answer, which was chosen as the accepted answer and received 3 upvotes:

Rename tracking would be better than having to “delete” and “add”. :)


Originally posted on Stack Overflow — 3 upvotes (accepted answer). Licensed under CC BY-SA.

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