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• Good times for VCS' (Score:2)

  by Dom2 (2981)

  You won't regret learning git. It's a fine solution to the problem of version control. But, we are blessed at the moment with many good version control tools. For all the complaints, subversion does work well. Mercurial is in heavy use by Sun for Solaris, OpenJDK, etc. Ubuntu are investing heavily in bzr. There's a lot of choice out there, and they're all pretty good (when compared to CVS, RCS and SCCS which came before).
  • Re: (Score:1)

    by wirebird (8007)

    Subversion and Mercurial sound about right for the suggestions he made. I think he uses Mercurial at the day job, and used to use subversion, and only objects to git as being something different he has to deal with. For simplicity, he likes to keep home and work using the same stuff wherever it makes sense to do so. (I can appreciate that... having worked a contract job in Delphi and a FOSS project in Perl for a year or two.)
    
    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Aristotle (5147)

      Git and Mercurial are actually pretty similar in use. In a surprising number of cases, the command to do something is called the same in both of them. [masukomi.org] And if he’s ever touching any free software repositories, he’ll have to learn at least a minimum of git sooner or later anyway. :-)
      • Re:Good times for VCS' (Score:1)

        by wirebird (8007) <karen.cravensNO@SPAMgmail.com> on 2008.02.10 15:09 (#60996) Homepage Journal

        Oh, his complaint isn't about *using* any of them, it's about maintaining them on our servers. Particularly, maintaining more than one... likes to keep his package management stuff to a minimum, as one might expect.
        

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