[Techtalk] Version Control Systems

[Jennifer Scalf]

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 07:29, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
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> So the kind of things I'm interested in are versioning and snapshots and
> rollback and ease of setup and ease of use (and being better than CVS,
> including the Big Renaming Problem).
> 
> For me, subversion looks like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut -- it
> doesn't seem to be worth the hassle of its setup, not for what one gets
> out of it.

I did not install subversion but last week a colleague of mine did and
he said it was a bear. There are a lot of dependencies. But it's got a
pretty web interface if that makes it any better. 

> Aegis struck me as being too big and complicated too.

I haven't touched this yet.

> That seems to leave arch/tla, darcs or monotone.  I'm leaning a bit
> towards darcs at the moment, as it seems to be simpler in its commands
> and setup.  But is there anyone here who has used any of these, who
> could say what they're like to use?

Looked at Arch for a sec and I can't reminder why we didn't like it
(again I didn't install...I've got way too many other projects right
now..but I'm researching in the spare mins I have) I believe Arch was a
bit too GNU software specific and for reasons that will go unnamed it
will not be excepted here because of that.

I believe monotone and darcs might be next on the testing list so thank
you for suggesting them :)

Jennifer