Re: Revision Control

2009-02-19 Thread Roy Smith
In article <499d5f0e$0$444$bf494...@news.tele2.nl>, Dikkie Dik wrote: > Funny how everybody is speaking about the ease of merging. It is the > very least feature I have ever needed from source code control. It depends on what you're doing. In a big commercial project, sometimes you don't hav

Re: Revision Control

2009-02-19 Thread Tim Chase
FWIW, Bazaar and Mercurial both have about half a dozen C modules. (Most of Bazaar's are Pyrex, though, not straight C.) Thanks for the update -- it's been about 6 months since I played much with Bazaar. Hopefully these C module help with some of the speed issues that plagued bzr in my past e

Re: Revision Control

2009-02-19 Thread Scott David Daniels
Dikkie Dik wrote: Funny how everybody is speaking about the ease of merging. It is the very least feature I have ever needed from source code control Ah yes, but with a distributed VCS, merging becomes _much_ more common. The model is developers pull, develop (checking in frequently), and m

Re: Revision Control

2009-02-19 Thread Dikkie Dik
Funny how everybody is speaking about the ease of merging. It is the very least feature I have ever needed from source code control. Most version control system are really brilliant in creating a version mess of intertwined branches, but off course I use version control to *PREVENT* such a mess. So

Re: Revision Control

2009-02-18 Thread Matt Nordhoff
Tim Chase wrote: >> -Mercurial (this is a big up and coming RCS) > > This is currently my favorite: good branching/merging, fast, written > mostly in Python (one C extension module, IIRC), and a simple interface > >> -Bazaar (written in Python. Also pretty new. I don't know about Windows >> s

Re: Revision Control

2009-02-18 Thread Tim Wintle
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 09:08 -0800, Sam Clark wrote: > Any suggestions for a beginer on what to use for version control? > It's just me, the lone person programming. I've already nailed one > "version" of my code accidentaly. MS VSS is too expensive for the > stuff I'm doing, plus I really don't l

Re: Revision Control

2009-02-18 Thread Tim Chase
-CVS (One of the first RCS, I think most projects are moving away from this one.) I wouldn't suggest starting a new project with CVS. Subversion (svn) resolves several of the main issues with it, so using SVN instead wins over CVS in just about every possible way. - Subversion-(pretty popu

Re: Revision Control

2009-02-18 Thread skip
>> Any suggestions for a beginer on what to use for version control? Chris> I like Mercurial (hg) personally... Me too. It's perfect for little one-person things. (It's probably good for other stuff as well, but I certainly like how easy it is to use for standalone stuff.) -- Skip Mo

Re: Revision Control

2009-02-18 Thread Benjamin Kaplan
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Sam Clark wrote: > Any suggestions for a beginer on what to use for version control? It's > just me, the lone person programming. I've already nailed one "version" of > my code accidentaly. MS VSS is too expensive for the stuff I'm doing, plus > I really don

Re: Revision Control

2009-02-18 Thread Chris Rebert
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Sam Clark wrote: > Any suggestions for a beginer on what to use for version control? It's > just me, the lone person programming. I've already nailed one "version" of > my code accidentaly. MS VSS is too expensive for the stuff I'm doing, plus > I really don't