which SCM tool do you use?

dc0d32 · Post by **dc0d32** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 12:43 pm

I'm thinking of using Subversion or perforce. As of now (and in near future at least); I'll be the only person working on the project.

Just curious....
What do you guys use?

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prashant

JamesM · Post by **JamesM** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 12:57 pm

Many people use GIT too. (I don't)

inflater · Post by **inflater** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 1:22 pm

I use a backup external HDD

jzgriffin · Post by **jzgriffin** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 1:45 pm

Subversion. It's simple and easy to use, and I can have a local repository instead of using a server (even though I have a Subversion server

).

Alboin · Post by **Alboin** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 2:31 pm

JamesM wrote:Many people use GIT too. (I don't)

I use git. (When I can.) It's awesome.

Brynet-Inc · Post by **Brynet-Inc** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 4:35 pm

I use SVN fairly often, but I know a little about CVS as well.

Git is horrible, let's hope it's eventually discontinued.

jzgriffin · Post by **jzgriffin** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 5:10 pm

CVS and Git have too steep of learning curves, if you ask me. Subversion seems to have a nice balance to it, between speed and features. And Google uses it.

frank · Post by **frank** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 6:02 pm

I use subversion myself.

inx · Post by **inx** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 10:28 pm

Right now, I just have a rule in my makefile.

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snapshot : distclean
     tar -jcvf ../snapshot-$(shell date +%m-%d-%Y_%k).tar.bz2 ../kernel

Rudimentary, but works fine for me right now.

01000101 · Post by **01000101** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 10:50 pm

inflater wrote:I use a backup external HDD

same here.

Colonel Kernel · Post by **Colonel Kernel** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:10 am

I use Perforce because I also use it at work. I just decided to stick with what I know.

Solar · Post by **Solar** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 1:12 am

RCS -> CVS -> Subversion.

I used ClearCase professionally, but that felt too heavyweight for my uses.

Subversion does most things on the file system level instead of using "hidden" flags, and doesn't get into the way. I also found its integration into Trac to be a very nice thing: SCM, Wiki, bug tracker, all bundled in one neat package.

ucosty · Post by **ucosty** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:02 am

Agreed. I even wrote the wiki entry for multiple trac projects using lightspeed </plug>

I use subversion. I suppose a part of that is just because I used it at work. I do like the integration, especially the Windows shell integration.

JoeKayzA · Post by **JoeKayzA** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 2:28 am

I use SVN, for everything actually. Altough I considered switching to mercurial when I first got in touch with it at university (during the operating systems design course

). It looks pretty lightweight, especially for local operation.

Combuster · Post by **Combuster** » Mon Mar 10, 2008 11:53 am

I used to have CVS (because of a dated linux distro that didn't have Apache 2), When I finally decided that it was better to have a distro that could actually install something, I went to gentoo and switched to svn. Used nothing but subversion ever since.