Re: [OT?] Simple AND/OR Simplistic single user ~CVS

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:44:33 +1100
Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Randy Yates wrote:

CVS is passe.

Agree completely. CVS is horrible.

Most people these days use subversion, git, or
mercurial. I believe subversion (AKA svn) is probably the most
popular.

I use Bzr, Git, SVN, and Darcs on a regular basis and have also used
Perforce, CVS, Hg (mercurial), Visual Source Safe and Aegis.

In my experience, Bzr is the one that is the easiest to set up and use
out of all of them. There is no central server to set up (like CVS,
SVN and Perforce) is feature rich and has the simplest command line
interface.

Erik

But in a single user environment, the Subversion "central server" is
simply a directory on the local machine, with no background processes
running. I haven't played with Bzr, but I definitely find that with
TortoiseSVN I'm almost never forced to use the command line for my
Subversion operations. I wasn't able to find any similairly simple to
work with graphical client for any of the other version control systems
I looked at.

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