Comments on: My new favorite scm - SVK http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2006/09/29/my-new-favorite-scm-svk.html 20 minutes into the future... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:39:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Giao Phan http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2006/09/29/my-new-favorite-scm-svk.html#comment-10373 Giao Phan Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:51:19 +0000 http://www.xxeo.com/archives/2006/09/29/my-new-favorite-scm-svk.html#comment-10373 <p>I happen to be a bit of a SCM geek (we are using Arch over at GUBA, and I've never met anyone else that actually knows about it.) Right now though, I'm a gigantic Bazaar fan, which emerged from Arch after Tom Lord's abandoned it again. I use it for all my personal projects now, it's just amazingly easy to set up and use, and since it's written in python with a plug-in system, I think will allow it to quickly emerge to be the head of the pack. Though it's features are really built for DRCS, it also really lends itself to solo user usage incredibly well. For instance, this is all you have to do to start versioning your code:</p> <p>% bzr init % bzr add % bzr commit -m 'First commit'</p> <p>No setup of servers, repositories or apache. I looked into SVK, without using it, because I felt just like CVS was a hack on RCS, and inherited it's flaws, SVK won't ever be a true DRCS, since it has to rely on SVN (which last time I checked, you still can't do a true rename!)</p> I happen to be a bit of a SCM geek (we are using Arch over at GUBA, and I’ve never met anyone else that actually knows about it.) Right now though, I’m a gigantic Bazaar fan, which emerged from Arch after Tom Lord’s abandoned it again. I use it for all my personal projects now, it’s just amazingly easy to set up and use, and since it’s written in python with a plug-in system, I think will allow it to quickly emerge to be the head of the pack. Though it’s features are really built for DRCS, it also really lends itself to solo user usage incredibly well. For instance, this is all you have to do to start versioning your code:

% bzr init % bzr add % bzr commit -m ‘First commit’

No setup of servers, repositories or apache. I looked into SVK, without using it, because I felt just like CVS was a hack on RCS, and inherited it’s flaws, SVK won’t ever be a true DRCS, since it has to rely on SVN (which last time I checked, you still can’t do a true rename!)

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