[clug] Revision control systems [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Steven Hanley]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 12:58:13PM +1000, Roppola, Antti - BRS wrote:
> Paul wrote:
> 
> > This is indeed true.  I can see I'm going to have to learn a bit more 
> > about git, even if it's to see what I and/or Linus is missing.  For 
> > now, though, you'll have to put up with me corrupting your minds and 
> > speaking on what I know.  Until I learn how to use git, Subversion 
> > will be simpler for me... :-)
> 
> There was a really good CLUG talk some years back contrasting the
> different versioning tools and their strengths/weaknesses. Without being
> able to see YouTube here at work, I'd wager that Linus is more
> interested in distributed patch management (like darcs,
> http://www.darcs.net/DarcsWiki) than maintaining a centralised corporate
> store of source code (all our staff are in this building).
> 
> Until all our developers have IDEs that can back-end onto git,
> Subversion will remain the least sucky solution. ;-p

Probably the talk given by Martin Pool (author of bazaar
http://bazaar-vcs.org/)

Contrasting many different systems and providing reasoning behind uses of
the different systems, alos features of the different distributed systms
compared with each other.

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