SCM's

cactus · 2005-08-18 17:04:49

I use Subversion currently.
Some people i know use darcs..I looked into it a while back, and decided I didn't like it. Same for GNU-Arch.

I have heard of monotone lately. I might check that one out. And there is always 'git'. I haven't researched the progress on that. I don't know how far it has come yet.

Opinions? Experiences?

phrakture · 2005-08-18 17:59:03

I find subversion easiest to use from both windows and linux - that's why I like it best... not sure about other things...

Dusty · 2005-08-18 19:49:52

subversion gets my vote too.

One problem with the others is that they aren't common, so people have to relearn it. Subversion is enough like the ubiquitous cvs that most people can pick it up quickly, and its better enough than cvs that few people will complain about making the switch.

Dusty

shbang · 2006-03-13 20:44:12

Just wondering if anyone out there might have a suggestion to help me convince my management to take another path. My employer is currently planning on our network team using subversion for document control since subversion is what our development team uses for control of source code. Most of the documents that will be placed under version control by the network team are non-ascii (i.e. word doc's, visio diagrams, photographs, etc). Does this make sense or is there a better solution?

cactus · 2006-03-13 21:34:15

subversion will handle binary data just fine.
I *believe* subversion does some type of binary diffing..dont remember offhand. If not, then it just stores the binaries as full diffs, which can chew up some storage space.

Other than that potential issue (not even sure if it is an issue, like I said), I don't see a problem with such a setup.

ps. I have moved to bazaar-ng as my scm.
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shbang · 2006-03-13 21:55:55

Thanks. Guess I can live with that (since I also manage the SAN). I would rather use bzr or mercurial or git or something (distributed)! Are you in management? Like I said I'm trying to talk them OUT of it.

cactus · 2006-03-13 22:15:03

heh. Not currently.

shbang · 2006-03-13 22:23:35

In all seriousness thanks for your input. Guess the tools don't matter as much as how you implement them.

cactus · 2006-03-13 22:51:50

No problem.

iphitus · 2006-03-13 23:36:36

git's progressed amazingly well, it's very complete and usable. as has been said before, its designed with an emphasis on being distributed.
I've been fiddling with gti and stacked git (stgit) to replace my current workflow with quilt for archck....

iphitus

shbang · 2006-03-14 01:22:17

I have been leaning towards git also but I'm torn between git, mercurial, and bzr (usually in that order). Some of the peple I work with only use windoz - thus my interest in mercurial. As i understand it the translation from git to mercurial to git is not problematic so I could use whichever I prefer.

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