Re: [PLUG] revision control systems: your faves?

[JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org>]

> Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:43:53 -0400
> From: Floyd Johnson<fljohnson3@isp.com>
>
> I'm considering the use of Subversion for a project meant to live
> entirely on a local volume, and have it in my head that GUI clients
> notwithstanding, it ain't for lightweights or solo developers.
>
> For the times you've written stuff singlehandedly, what was your RCS of
> choice, and what was the best source of info as to how to use it?

Avoid Subversion.  It works just fine, but it's the last of a dying 
breed and there is no sense is joining that parade as it is winding down.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/version-control/version-control.html
    "[...] it is generally understood that CVS's days are numbered. 
However, in the longer term so are Subversion's. It is clearly the best 
of the centralized VCSes, but just as clearly the last of its kind. [...]"


Use one of the the distributed ones like git, Hg or Bzr.


Having said that...use BZR.  I know, everyone else said use git.  And it 
kind of doesn't matter, all three (git, Hg, Bzr) are cross platform, 
have GUI tools and IDE integration, and will work.  But I think Bzr is 
the easiest, friendliest, and (I hate to say this) prettiest one of the 
bunch.  Git still makes my eyes bleed...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazaar_(software)
http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/BzrWhy
http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/migration/en/why-switch-to-bazaar.html
http://doc.bazaar.canonical.com/latest/en/mini-tutorial/index.html

Fire them all up and try a few things and see what you like better.  I 
especially like 'bzr qlog' and 'bzr qdiff'...

Oh yeah, everyone loves github, but Bzr has Launchpad, Hg has something, 
and Sourceforge.net lets you use any of them.

Really, you can't go wrong with any of those three.

Later,
JP
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