Subject pages attached to craig:computer/versioning

1.	Subversion or CVS, Bazaar or Mercurial? Version control used to be practically synonymous with CVS, but those days are well behind us now. In fact, you not only have an abundance of systems to choose from, you also have two distinct models of source code management to consider. In this article John Ferguson Smart test drives four popular open source version control systems and summarizes the pros and cons of each one. URL: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-09-2007/jw-09-versioncontrol.html
2.	Mercurial: an alternative to git September 14, 2005. Mercurial, like BitKeeper, git and others is targeted at projects where the developers are spread out geographically and need to be able to perform source code management functions without the bottleneck of a central repository. URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/151624/
3.	Top open-source version control systems, 2008 Version control is an excellent way to allow unlimited number of people working on the same code base, without having to constantly send files back and forth. Designers and developers can both benefit from using such systems to keep copies of their files and designs. They can revert to earlier versions if something happens. Here I discuss some popular version control systems: URL: http://afruj.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/top-open-source-version-control-systems/
4.	Comparison of revision control software (Wikipedia) The following tables compare general and technical information for notable revision control and software configuration management (SCM) software. This article is not all-inclusive and may become out of date quickly. URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software

versioning/git

5.	git: the fast version control system [documentation] [official tutorial] Every Git clone is a full-fledged repository with complete history and full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server. Branching and merging are fast and easy to do. Git is used for version control of files, much like tools such as Mercurial, Bazaar, Subversion, CVS, Perforce, and Visual SourceSafe. URL: http://git-scm.com/
6.	Git tutorial 1 "git init" creates an empty git repository in the current folder. URL: http://www.ralfebert.de/blog/tools/visual_git_tutorial_1/
7.	Git Tutorial Man Page This tutorial explains how to import a new project into git, make changes to it, and share changes with other developers. URL: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html
8.	GitWeb 'Gitweb' is a Git web interface, the one working on http://www.kernel.org/git/. It is written in Perl, and can be used as a CGI script, or as a mod_perl legacy script (run by ModPerl::Registry handler). It allows browsing a git repository (or a set of git repositories) using a web browser. URL: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Gitweb
9.	Git subtree merging When Git merges, it looks at what it has to merge together and then chooses an appropriate merging strategy to use. If you’re merging two branches, Git uses a recursive strategy. If you’re merging more than two branches, Git picks the octopus strategy. URL: http://progit.org/book/ch6-7.html

versioning/mercurial

10.	Ground up Mercurial [main index for tutorial by Joel Spolsky] Even if you’re working by yourself, you should use Mercurial to get the benefits of version control. This tutorial shows how easy it is to check a directory into Mercurial so you can track old versions easily. Mercurial is a version control system. Developers use it to manage source code. It serves two important purposes: It keeps track of every old version of every file It can merge different versions of your code, so that teammates can work independently on the code and then merge their changes Without Mercurial, you could try to keep old versions just by making a lot of copies of the directory containing all your code. URL: http://hginit.com/01.html
11.	Mercurial: The Definitive Guide by Bryan O'Sullivan hg clone http://bitbucket.org/bos/hgbook URL: http://hgbook.red-bean.com/
12.	Mercurial homepage Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It efficiently handles projects of any size and offers an easy and intuitive interface. Requires Python 2.4. URL: http://mercurial.selenic.com/
13.	Mercurial support for project hosting on google code While there were several DVCSs that we could support, our decision to support Mercurial was based on two key reasons. The primary reason was to support our large base of existing Subversion users that want to use a distributed version control system. For these users we felt that Mercurial had the lowest barrier to adoption because of its similar command set, great documentation (including a great online book), and excellent tools such as Tortoise Hg. Second, given that Google Code's infrastructure is built for HTTP-based services, we found that Mercurial had the best protocol and performance characteristics for HTTP support. URL: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/04/mercurial-support-for-project-hosting.html
14.	Mercurial FAQ URL: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/FAQ
15.	HgWebDir setup instructions HgWebDir is for web access to Mercurial repositories. URL: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/HgWebDirStepByStep