[FRIAM] Version Control Systems .. Experiences?

[Raymond Parks]

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?

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