[SGVLUG] Revision Control Systems

[Claude Felizardo]

I'm a long time user of CVS.  Started with SCCS when I first started
on Unix but someone on the project had written shell script wrappers
so I never learned the actual commands.  A few people here at work
have pushed for switching to subversion but they could never get
enough buy-in to get their projects to switch.  A big concern was that
it wasn't clear if we could migrate our CVS revision history.

As for starting a new repository or module in CVS, yeah it's a pain as
it's something you do only once in a while so I always have to dig up
the manual.  Otherwise most of the time you are using the diff, update
-n and log commands.  Lately I've been using LinCVS which makes it
trivial to do side by side color coded diffs with your sandbox or any
revision of a file for that matter.  It also makes it easier to
manipulate tags.

>From the SourceForge page at http://sourceforge.net/projects/lincvs/

"LinCVS is a graphical interface for the cvs client on Unix, Windows
and Mac OS X. Besides support of most of the cvs commands, LinCVS
provides manifoldy graphical support of project maintenance."




On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:49 AM, juanslayton @dslextreme.com
<juanslayton at dslextreme.com> wrote:
> Definitely would be a good meeting topic for me.  I'm going nuts trying to
> figure out CVS.
> John
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Jason Riker <jasonrkr at charter.net> wrote:
>>
>> Group,
>>
>> Anyone done a comparison of revision control systems?  My boss wants to
>> setup Subversion and I'm just wondering if there's anything better.  We'll
>> be housing mostly Java/PHP web apps.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Jason
>>
>> P.S., this might be a good meeting topic if anyone is available.
>
>