From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oleg Katsitadze Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Choosing a versioning system (was My dream work log:) Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:59:38 +0300 Message-ID: <20080330185938.GB31313@thor> References: <0fadnf78Nt8kvHDanZ2dnUVZ_q7inZ2d@sysmatrix.net> <657buvF2ep4flU1@mid.individual.net> <89aaa431-b54b-4edd-9c55-adb87fb13afa@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1206909373 16391 80.91.229.12 (30 Mar 2008 20:36:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:36:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: rustom Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 30 22:36:42 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jg4Ge-0005b6-G4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:36:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg4G2-0006cx-I7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:36:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg2kt-0004OF-Jy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:59:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg2kr-0004Nt-Ei for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:59:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jg2kr-0004Nj-8O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:59:45 -0400 Original-Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.154]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jg2kq-00043C-P1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 14:59:45 -0400 Original-Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id d23so1679354fga.30 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:59:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=HT2sRDpdQyEE/GHmhmNKn7ntaFc+oovdLj19m7haito=; b=KMCjVJVpx1AV+Hk1XDwmYXtrRu6alZNwM/ryEepL6O+P2ziZ1sb5lZQ+KRFx33sQJVROt2GZdNFqLThIks63vuY0Ayl9KIgN7OgwTRMQKX+8pvJwY7lVVVU8h7TN4sSYxdGGwpXLJ41CMAW0FHxt6unGMInL0q53xQwtxE29X0g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=QRbAvy+xpWJsN8xu/nm0zCHcx3TABkq/SAWCVHCZbvidyQKj8JRAJabvLu8X32vLNwhWzgcolrQ2zqV2rma2n4Ml7GkUMXPbjpvAm2upLmOFRAtXr3NU5nkJjfWA0OKCiPRSIZbCEA4CsOj7TlcaYPo3dy++1wzEQqOosPxlwYY= Original-Received: by 10.86.80.5 with SMTP id d5mr3796666fgb.57.1206903583125; Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:59:43 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost ( [195.110.7.101]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d6sm5146147fga.9.2008.03.30.11.59.41 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Mail-Followup-To: rustom , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <89aaa431-b54b-4edd-9c55-adb87fb13afa@s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:34:28 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:52861 Archived-At: On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 10:21:34AM -0700, rustom wrote: > system that gets invoked is rcs. > I wonder if this (default) is the best advice to a noob?? This is a good choice if all you want to control is a single file (or a collection of unrelated files). Great for keeping track of changes to configuration files. > My impression is that rcs was superseded by cvs by svn by.. well... a > lot of competition! These make sense when you have a "project" -- a collection of related files under directory hierarchy. > This is a genuine question --- I'm familiar with many versioning > systems but not too good at any of them. This is my understanding: CVS is good but has a few flaws. Don't use it for new projects. SVN (subversion) is a successor to CVS with the flaws fixed and new features added. I've started using it recently and it seems to be just great. Distributed systems (git, monotone) are good when you don't have (or don't want to have) a server to keep the repository. Each developer's snapshot is a repository in its own right, or something like that. (I've never used such a system myself.) HTH, Oleg