NOTE: use Perl; is on undef hiatus. You can read content, but you can't post it. More info will be forthcoming forthcomingly.
All the Perl that's Practical to Extract and Report
--Larry Wall
Stories, comments, journals, and other submissions on use Perl; are Copyright 1998-2006, their respective owners.
DVCS under the radar (Score:1)
This is one of the things I really like about the current crop of DVCS. You can create your own repo so easily, and so quietly, that it turns into a "do it and move along" operation. Running a local Subverion repo is close, but not quite as good (especially since setting up a local DVCS is not as permanent a decision).
I recently did this for our big product at work. The official system is Source Safe, which is hard for me to like very much. I checked all the code into a private Mercurial repo, which I use f
Re:DVCS under the radar (Score:2)
People still use Source Safe? Even Microsoft doesn't use it and they developed it. I've used Source Safe in the past and all I can say is "never again".
Reply to This
Parent
Re: (Score:1)
Yeah, it's pretty awful. I've been making a more official push for something better, but my requests are being ignored or redirected. In the meantime, my private Mercurial repo gives me a safety net and helps me sleep a little sounder.
Re: (Score:1)
We do at work...I scream like a Wookie everytime I have to use it.