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Personal blog · blog.red-bean.com/sussmanprogrammingsystems

Red-Bean Blogs is a personal blog at blog.red-bean.com about programming and systems. Since 2007, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 11 times, most often “Subversion’s Future?”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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11mentions?
9HN people?
2007–2012first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 3 in 2008

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

Posts on version control, including comparisons of SVN and Git and the use of personal branches in SVN. HN commenters link them as references in Git-versus-SVN discussions.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Subversion’s Future?
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-04-30
  2. The Risks of Distributed Version Control [2005]
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-11-04

What Hacker News says?

  1. arebop · 2009-02-20
    Contrary to what seems like the prevailing view right now, Git is not strictly better than SVN. Some reasons to use SVN are at http://blog.red-bean.com/sussman/?p=90 . It sounds like you want to use SCM in a personal (not collaborative) capacity. I think both SVN and Git are suitable for this purpose, but maybe Git has the edge because its philosophy doesn't privilege a repository.

    Comment linking /sussman/?p=90

    on “What git is not”
  2. mqt · 2008-06-13

    Submitted Programmer Insecurity as a story · 57 points

    HN discussion
  3. mattmcknight · 2010-11-04
    You can do the same thing with a personal branch in SVN. There was sort of a competing line of thought that keeping it local is a bit of "cave-hiding" behavior. http://blog.red-bean.com/sussman/?p=20

    Comment linking /sussman/?p=20

    on “Switching from SVN to Git: A Startup’s Perspective”
  4. MaysonL · 2009-11-05

    Submitted Subversion moving to the Apache Software Foundation as a story · 33 points

    HN discussion
  5. davidw · 2008-04-30

    Submitted Subversion’s Future? as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion
  6. nickb · 2007-10-17

    Submitted Version Control and "the 80%" as a story · 15 points

    HN discussion
  7. davidw · 2011-11-30

    Submitted Your Community is Not Your Tools as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  8. arthurk · 2008-11-09

    Submitted A Mercurial “super client” as a story · 6 points

    HN discussion
  9. jacquesm · 2011-01-04

    Submitted WANdisco, ur doin it rong iBanjo as a story · 5 points

    HN discussion
  10. joeyespo · 2012-06-13

    Submitted The Risks of Distributed Version Control [2005] as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  11. MaysonL · 2011-03-09

    Submitted Watching your brain change as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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