Re: SCM Preferences and Experiences
Re: SCM Preferences and Experiences
- Subject: Re: SCM Preferences and Experiences
- From: "Paul Sargent" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:12:27 +0200
On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Jim Geldermann <
email@hidden> wrote:
I'm looking at installing a SCM. I noticed that xCode supports CVS, Perforce, and Subversion. Any feedback will be appreciated.
My opinion:
Out of those three, use Subversion.
Out of all SCMs, in most cases, I'd use Mercurial, Git or Bazaar.
I wouldn't recommend anybody start anything new with CVS these days. Things like having revisions at the file level, rather than at the repository level, just cause problems that are easily avoided by not using CVS.
I don't have any experience of Perforce, so I can't comment. All I know is it costs money, and therefore is out of the game as far as I'm concerned. Most commercial SCMs I've used have lagged behind the free ones out there. That may be true of Perforce or not.
I personally think it's worth knowing how to use a SCM from the command line, rather than from inside Xcode, and if you do it also opens up other possibilities. Mercurial, Git and Bazaar are the next step after subversion and a lot easier to set-up. I lump them together because the ideas behind all three are very similar.
It's worth reading the introductions to the following just to get a feel for the differences:
Git : I don't have a good link
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