On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:38:26 +0200
Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com> wrote:

> rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > On Mar 30, 11:59 pm, Oleg Katsitadze <oleg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> Distributed systems (git, monotone) are good when you don't have
> >> (or don't want to have) a server to keep the repository.
> >
> > Yes that is my impression also.
> > What your reply suggests however is that we are seeing a cycle of
> > simple-complex-simple:
> > rcs -- simple (no server)
> > cvs,svn -- more complex because needs centralized server
> > modern distributed ones -- once again no need for server but with
> > the lock model replaced with the merge model (see
> > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.2/svn.basic.vsn-models.html )
> >
> > And so I was wondering if these systems give the best of all worlds?
> >
> > But... there are just too many to choose from!!  bzr, darcs, git,
> > mercurial, monotone...
> > [Alphabetically listed  :-)   ]
> >
> > So my question is: For people living much of their lives in emacs
> > and among other things trying to keep their own stuff versioned,
> > what do you use??
> >
> > For the choice rcs-for-sysadmin files I see 3 options:
> >
> > -- make the ,v file next to the original file
> > -- make the ,v file in an RCS directory  -- but that way one could
> > end up having tens (100s?) of RCS directories in /etc alone!
> > -- there is some way (I dont know of) of making one RCS repo for all
> > files or at least all sysadmin file. So that something like 'I keep
> > my home in svn' http://kitenet.net/~joey/svnhome/ is possible with
> > RCS
> >
> RCS do one directory RCS by directory.
> thats mean that for /etc for example you will have one directory RCS
> for all the files you have under version in this directory.
> If you register a file in a subdirectory of /etc you will have a RCS
> directory in this subdirectory ....etc..
> If you use RCS for file in /etc think at unlocking the files that can
> be dynamically modified by the system.
> But another time, if you want to put under version a big set of files
> like /etc, use another version system.
> CVS ==> bof...
> SVN ==> good but a central repository.

I use svn mostly. A central repository makes backups easy, just dump the repo.

> mercurial ==> very good, own repo, you can use it with dvc.
> git ==> seem to be the more advanced, work with dvc.
> bzr ==> seem good, never tried, work with dvc.
> 
> With mercurial, if you want to put under version all /etc,
> just do while you have cd in /etc:
> hg init.==> thats done, all files in /etc and all subdir are under
> version!