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		octo_t on Aug 21, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: GCC is moving to git > Branching is easy when svn first came out (and up until a few years ago) branching was definitely not easy!

lfowles on Aug 21, 2015 [–]

What changed a few years ago?

anonydsfsfs on Aug 21, 2015 | [–]

Subversion 1.5 added support for tracking merges: https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.5.html#me...

Before this, merging branches was a huge pain, because you had to manually keep track of the commits that needed to be merged.

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