Re: Revision control advice

2011-12-24 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Chris Hill wrote: > On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Chris Hill wrote: > > I'm looking to set up some sort of revision control system at work. >> > > Thank you to everyone who replied. Based on what I've found out, I think I > will be setting up git on a test server so I can

Re: Revision control advice

2011-12-24 Thread Chris Hill
On Wed, 21 Dec 2011, Chris Hill wrote: I'm looking to set up some sort of revision control system at work. Thank you to everyone who replied. Based on what I've found out, I think I will be setting up git on a test server so I can get familiar with it. Thanks again, and a happy $HOLIDAY to

Re: Revision control advice

2011-12-22 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 09:23:22AM +1030, William Brown wrote: > On 22/12/2011, at 20:06, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > > svn vs git vs mercurial > > > > svn has the model of a central repository that everything has to > > communicate with. This can be attractive in a commercial environment as > >

Re: Revision control advice

2011-12-22 Thread Dale Scott
Absolutely go distributed vcs over centralized. Keeping code always under version control, even when local in your sandbox, is extremely powerful. And since a distributed vcs can be used as a centralized vcs, there's really no technical reason to use a centralized vcs. - Original Message --

Re: [freebsd-questions] Revision control advice

2011-12-22 Thread Howard Jones
On 22/12/2011 22:53, William Brown wrote: Again, git wins here. It has good support on windows, as well as with graphical tools on windows. Is there a git equivalent of TortoiseSVN then? That's the best VC integration I've seen on any platform... One small but cosmetic thing with git vs svn: y

Re: Revision control advice

2011-12-22 Thread William Brown
On 22/12/2011, at 20:06, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 22/12/2011 04:53, Rob Byrnes wrote: Yeah I would second what Mr Rock says. Set up a single repo where >> folders can be used for projects. Since svn lets you checkout sub >> folders of a repo, each developer can check out the fold

Re: Revision control advice

2011-12-22 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 08:24:01PM -0700, ss griffon wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Da Rock > wrote: > > On 12/22/11 11:37, Chris Hill wrote: > >> > >> Hello list, > >> > >> I apologize for this posting being not-much-on-topic, but my other > >> resources have come to naught and I thi

Re: Revision control advice

2011-12-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 22/12/2011 04:53, Rob Byrnes wrote: >>> Yeah I would second what Mr Rock says. Set up a single repo where >>> >> folders can be used for projects. Since svn lets you checkout sub >>> >> folders of a repo, each developer can check out the folder that >>> >> corresponds to their project. Also,

Re: Revision control advice

2011-12-21 Thread Rob Byrnes
On 22 December 2011 15:07, Outback Dingo wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:24 PM, ss griffon wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Da Rock >> wrote: >>> On 12/22/11 11:37, Chris Hill wrote: Hello list, I apologize for this posting being not-much-on-topic, but my other

Re: Revision control advice

2011-12-21 Thread Outback Dingo
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 10:24 PM, ss griffon wrote: > On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Da Rock > wrote: >> On 12/22/11 11:37, Chris Hill wrote: >>> >>> Hello list, >>> >>> I apologize for this posting being not-much-on-topic, but my other >>> resources have come to naught and I think you folks ma

Re: Revision control advice

2011-12-21 Thread ss griffon
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:49 PM, Da Rock wrote: > On 12/22/11 11:37, Chris Hill wrote: >> >> Hello list, >> >> I apologize for this posting being not-much-on-topic, but my other >> resources have come to naught and I think you folks may have some experience >> in this area. >> >> I'm looking to se

Re: Revision control advice

2011-12-21 Thread Da Rock
On 12/22/11 11:37, Chris Hill wrote: Hello list, I apologize for this posting being not-much-on-topic, but my other resources have come to naught and I think you folks may have some experience in this area. I'm looking to set up some sort of revision control system at work. Simple enough, e

Revision control advice

2011-12-21 Thread Chris Hill
Hello list, I apologize for this posting being not-much-on-topic, but my other resources have come to naught and I think you folks may have some experience in this area. I'm looking to set up some sort of revision control system at work. Simple enough, except that our situation is approximat