Re: Thoughts on choosing a source code control system?
Re: Thoughts on choosing a source code control system?
- Subject: Re: Thoughts on choosing a source code control system?
- From: Mike Schrag <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 07:51:24 -0500
http://better-scm.berlios.de/ has a lot of interesting and useful
information ...
ms
On Mar 11, 2006, at 4:24 PM, email@hidden wrote:
Hi all,
I hope this doesn't kick off a flame war; I know this can be one
of those semi-religious topics. But I'm hoping we can have a civil
discussion about it.
I've used CVS forever, and want to move into something more
modern. I heard from several people I really trust that Perforce
is da bomb, and in my tests it worked just fine. I had occasion to
use their support, and was impressed by how good it was. However,
the $800 per seat cost is pretty steep for a small company, and it
seemed clear from reading both the Xcode and WO lists that there
are a lot of people using Subversion. So I decided to look into that.
After reading through the Manning book on Subversion, I was
starting to have doubts. There were a distressing number of places
where the author seemed to be giving workarounds to limitations in
Subversion, without quite admitting that was what he was doing. I
just didn't feel like I was reading about a polished product, one
that would be so much better than CVS that it would be worth the
effort to switch. However the siren call of "free" was still
beckoning me, so I started monitoring the Subversion user's list.
I don't read all the posts there but from the ones I do read it
seems like a bit of a pattern is emerging. The users there are
extremely protective of their software of choice, and they don't
take kindly to people suggesting improvements. There was recently
a knockdown dragout over whether the "cvs tag" functionality should
be added to Subversion or not. Additionally, it appears that the
Subversion developers are not terribly interested in what the user
community cares about; a good number of the replies on the tags
thread could be boiled down to "Subversion rulez, we don't need no
stinkin' tags, and why are you bothering to argue about this since
the developers don't take requests". It was not a terribly
impressive or inspiring exchange. I've been part of communities
like this before and it seems to me that when the users have a bad
attitude they usually caught it from the developers, and when the
developers have a bad attitude the software ends up suffering.
OTOH, there have been some big splashy conversions to Subversion
lately; Sourceforge is now offering it, among others. So it's not
like the Subversion project is going to fade into petulant
obscurity any time soon, even if they deserved to.
So... any thoughts on why I should (or should not) go with
Subversion or Perforce or something else entirely are all welcome.
Also, for those using Subversion, are you using it through Xcode or
with some other front end? It seems that some of it's limitations
can be solved by using the right client software, but there are so
many to choose from that it's hard to tell which one is the best.
Thanks!
janine
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