[LLVMdev] Version Control Upgrade?

[Sébastien Pierre]

Le 8 janv. 05, à 01:35, Reid Spencer a écrit :

>  Of the tools available, it seems that only subversion, arch, and 
> monotone are suitable for our purposes. But, we'd love to hear your 
> thoughts; especially if you have first-hand experience with these 
> tools.

 From my experience, monotone is the cleanest. It has a very simple and 
powerful versionning model (based on SHA-1 signatures), and does not 
clutter your directories with hidden folders to store versionning info 
(everything lies in a single folder).

However, Subversion is gaining a wide acceptance as a replacement to 
CVS, is updated regularly and seems to "work" -- but for people knowing 
Monotone, Subversion model looks somewhat old. This drawback is really 
minor, as there are a lot of really cool tools (such as Trac 
<http://www.edgewall.com/trac/>) which supports SVN and offer very 
valuable features.

Arch seems only interesting for people who do not have a server on 
which they can put a Monotone or SVN server, however it's starting to 
gain some acceptance in the GNU community.

Hope this helps,

  -- Sébastien

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