Owen Densmore wrote: > I've recently moved from my old hosting service, HostGo, to a new one, > Joyent. So after getting the usual out of the way: dumping mysql > databases and reinstalling (converted to utf8), moving my web site, > ditto for email and mail forwarders, I started looking at other > features I'd like to start using. > > One was version control systems. So I beam into the "how-to" > http://wiki.joyent.com/shared:kb:version-systems > .. and was blown away by the number of choices! > - Bazaar 0.91
Primary selling point is distributed development - if developers take their systems off-line or away from the central repository, Bazaar handles the synchronization in a relatively graceful way. > - GIT 1.5.3.6 This is the current kernel developers substitute for the commercial package that blew up on them. > - Mercurial, version 0.9.5 I don't know anything about this one. > - Monotone, version 0.37 A developer I trust tells me that this is the best of the bunch. He's very picky about everything being available and is particularly impressed by the way Monotone handles authentication via signatures. We have recommended Monotone to developers of critical systems where authentication can help prevent life cycle attacks. > - Subversion, 1.4.4 (with Ruby, Perl and Python bindings) A new face on the old standby - but you're still working with the old functionality of the old standby. I think someone else pointed out that getting CVS right is not necessarily the best of goals. > - svk, version 2.0.1 I don't know this one. > .. and a bit surprised that CVS was NOT there!? Is RCS free, nowadays? -- Ray Parks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Consilient Heuristician Voice:505-844-4024 ATA Department Mobile:505-238-9359 http://www.sandia.gov/scada Fax:505-844-9641 http://www.sandia.gov/idart Pager:800-690-5288 ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
