[tpm] RFC: Which Centralized VCS[s] are you using now or in future?

[Abram Hindle]

Another new and neat SCM I ran into lately:

http://fossil-scm.org

It is written by the sqlite-lite guys. It provides:
* Self hosting webservice
* Distributed VCS
* Distributed Bug tracking
* Distributed Wiki
* UI via webservice

So fossil is an integrated package.

abram

On 10-07-09 03:37 AM, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Sending again because the shortened URL service was blacklisted (again).
> 
> On Thursday 08 Jul 2010 17:07:43 J Z Tam wrote:
>> Dear mongeren,
>> PREFACE: This is Not meant to start a dreaded asbestos contest, ... really.
>> Just wanted to get a practical, experiential set of feedback from the list,
>> regarding the planning of revisioning paradigms.
>>
>> Q1.  What global, centralized VCS are you _now_ using?  Pros, cons,
>> perlAbleness, emacsAbleness (lispFullness ?), eclipseAble?
>>
> 
> At the moment, I'm primarily using Subversion (for most of my stuff, possibly 
> due to inertia), git (when I'm forced to use it - say for projects hosted at 
> github), Mercurial (for "quick and dirty" version-this-directory-using-"hg 
> init ."-stuff, for experimentation and for projects that are using it) and a 
> bit of other version control systems such as CVS or Bazaar-NG.
> 
> Subversion is not distributed, but there's git-svn hgsubversion, the Bazaar 
> svn plugin, etc. which are capable of treating it as a distributed backend (do 
> not touch SVK, which is old and unmaintained). Some people are unhappy with 
> branches and tags being directory copies, though I'm not too bothered about 
> it. Subversion is pretty fast from my testing. 
> 
> I didn't encounter any problems specific to Perl - you can handle files as 
> binary, or with your choice of LF/CRLF/native line ending, and while adding 
> version control stamps and keywords (which git does not support - see 
> http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/subversion.html#svn-linus-and-
> keywords-subst ), and can version empty directories or trees of empty 
> directories (which git and Mercurial cannot either), which is what I think is 
> needed for Perl. ( I have yet to run into a VCS with which I had serious 
> problems working on Perl and CPAN code).
> 
> I don't know how well Subversion support Emacs or Eclipse because I'm 
> primarily using vim/gvim and it works fine with it. I know many people are 
> using Emacs or Eclipse along with Subversion so it should not be a problem.
> 
> Before Subversion, I used CVS and had a little foray into BitKeeper (which you 
> should not get anywhere near to due to the hostile behaviour of its parent 
> company). More information about all that can be found here:
> 
> http://better-scm.berlios.de/
> 
>> Q2.  What was your Previous  VCS, and how did the migration/converion
>> process go?
>>
> 
> Migrating from CVS to Subversion is very easy thanks to the cvs2svn (now also 
> cvs2git) framework.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 	Shlomi Fish
> 


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