Re: SCM Preferences and Experiences
Re: SCM Preferences and Experiences
- Subject: Re: SCM Preferences and Experiences
- From: "Jonathan del Strother" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:56:55 +0100
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Nathan Vander Wilt
<email@hidden> wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2008, at 2:12 AM, Paul Sargent wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
>
> I very much agree with all this advice, as well as the suggestion to get
> familiar with the system through the command line. Unless you're in a
> corporate setting where The Man wants to be absolutely sure all code is in a
> centralized location, I highly recommend one of the newer ones like
> Mercurial or Bazaar. They are amazingly easy to set up for a project, you
> don't need a server, but yet they are designed for collaboration (between
> users, but also between two computers). Basically, every user/machine gets a
> full (well-compressed) copy of the whole history, so you can always
> revert/diff even when the network's down.
>
> Between that powerful simplicity, and not having to worry about completely
> confusing Subversion by accidentally doing something I shouldn't have to a
> subdirectory or a bundled document, there's little reason I see to not use
> it. (You can use these "Distributed" version control systems in a
> centralized fashion as well, just set up one machine as a "hub" and be
> responsible with pushing changes to it when it's appropriate.) Sorry if I
> sound like a fanatic, I really don't know that much about version control
> systems, but I guess that's why I didn't want to have to administer an often
> cranky centralized repository.
>
Another vote for skipping straight over CVS/SVN/etc, and using a more
modern SCM instead. Personally, I like git.
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