Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:16:35 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Adrian Penisoara" <ady@freebsd.ady.ro>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today Message-ID: <p06240815c3c7cd0987ee@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <78cb3d3f0801302245v2183c613t6ecdd9acebbe9ef7@mail.gmail.com> References: <78cb3d3f0801302245v2183c613t6ecdd9acebbe9ef7@mail.gmail.com>
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At 8:45 AM +0200 1/31/08, Adrian Penisoara wrote: >Hi, > > Side-topic, if you bear with me: if you were to choose again what >to use as source revision control system (VCS) from today's offerings, >what would you choose to maintain FreeBSD's sources or a side-off >project tracking FreeBSD as base that would allow better teams >cooperation and easy code merging between projects/branches ? You'll probably get a different answer from each person... :-) As for me, I'd go with subversion. I also believe 'git' might be a very interesting choice, but I haven't used it enough to know how well it works in practice. And I think that's the basic difficulty in trying to answer your question. Very few people have enough experience with all of the available VCS systems to do a comparison. I have worked a lot with RCS and CVS. I've done a little with perforce, but it is so different than CVS that I can't say that I gave it a fair chance. I just thought "Oh boy, this is too weird!", and went on to some other project. I don't have enough time to take a real project, and try to make the same set of changes to multiple copies of the repository, to see which VCS *really* does a better job for everything which is needed. One of the guys I know swears that darcs is the best thing ever, and I can see how it would work well for some projects, but I can't imagine it working well for a project such as FreeBSD. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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