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Re: Poll: Version Control

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Post by nostrademons »

jaxn wrote: post #38
potatolicious wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I use a combination of git and Subversion. SVN for the main repo that is shared between developers (with many developers working at once the lack of atomic commits really sucks), and git as my own offline versioning system. The code that I write tends to go through several iterations, and I'm loathe to commit anything to SVN until things work well enough to please me. Bad code should never make it into your prod repo…

Ok, this convinced me to at least give git a try. I made the move to SVN from CVS years ago to be able to rename / move stuff in the repo, but the offline version control would keep me from keeping a bunch of updates in a branch uncommitted while I do a major push. My current offline version control system has been leaving all the files open in TextMate to take advantage of undo/redo. (Horrible I know).

If you just want the offline aspect, you can use svk (http://svk.bestpractical.com/view/HomePage). I also switched to git for that (and stayed because I liked it better in a lot of other respects), but I found out afterwards that you can use svk to use svn offline.

Re: Poll: Version Control

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Post by cooldude127 »

silentbicycle wrote: post #44
jmtulloss wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's only a little bit faster than mercurial, and the size of the repository is larger.

Also, the project maintainers seem to place a very low priority on portability. People work on Windows, BSD, and OS X, too.

there is a mingw port for windows. untested by me, but it looks credible. as for os x, that's all i use, and git works PAINLESSLY on it. i'm not sure where you got this information from.

Re: Poll: Version Control

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Post by eru »

ced wrote: post #51

None. From where I stand, it seems like extra management duty, for marginal benefits.

Have you tried it? Version control makes you braver in deleting and rewriting.

Re: Poll: Version Control

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Post by vito »

apgwoz wrote: post #3

I adopted mercurial when git was "painful" to use. It seems as though this has changed, but I see no compelling reason to switch just because all the Rails kids think git's cool right now.

I used mercurial briefly and found it to be much, much slower compared to git.

Re: Poll: Version Control

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Post by hapless »

Darcs' redeeming feature is that it's so, so, so easy to use. The documentation is clear and the system is simple.

Distributed version control just doesn't get simpler.

Unfortunately, it's not particularly portable and it's not particularly fast. The former I can blame on its dependence on ghc. The latter, I dare not.

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