Re: What VCS do you use with xCode?
Re: What VCS do you use with xCode?
- Subject: Re: What VCS do you use with xCode?
- From: Nick Zitzmann <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 11:58:46 -0600
On Mar 22, 2009, at 8:22 AM, Panagiotis Atmatzidis wrote:
Which system do you think is the best to use with xCode for VCS
small projects?
Well, you have a number of free choices (e.g. CVS, Subversion, Bazaar,
Mercurial, and Git) and a few commercial choices. I've used the above
five free choices, and here is what I think about them: (+ is good, -
is bad)
CVS:
+ It works - usually
+ Tagging support
- Folders can be created but not deleted
- Files and folders cannot be renamed once checked in (without blowing
away history)
- Commits are not atomic
- It's a C2S application, so if the server is down, you're hosed
Subversion: Pretty much the same as CVS, except...
+ Folders can be deleted
+ Files and folders can be renamed
+ Existing files and folders can be copied
+ Commits are atomic
- No real tag support; you have to use subfolders (or other
repositories) and pretend they are tags
- Under absolutely no circumstances must you ever use the BDB back-
end; they are trivial to corrupt, a pain to upgrade, and don't work if
you switch CPU architectures
Bazaar and Mercurial: Similar to Subversion, except...
+ They're distributed applications, so no server = no problem
+ Tagging support
+ No BDB back-end
- Initially checking out a project takes a very long time
- Xcode doesn't support them, and the Xcode developers are apparently
in no rush to support them (but there are third-party GUI solutions
available)
Git: Similar to Bazaar and Mecurial, except...
+ In addition to adds and deletes requiring staging, modifications
also must be staged
- The built-in GUI app is a little glitchy
The only SCM system I cannot recommend under any circumstances is CVS.
If you're starting from scratch, then I would recommend Git, though
Bazaar and Mercurial are nice too. Subversion was kind of neat five
years ago, and was a big improvement over CVS, but I wouldn't start
with it now.
I've never used the commercial systems before, so I can't comment on
them.
Nick Zitzmann
<http://seiryu.home.comcast.net/>
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