From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 31 20:30:28 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B63E716A420 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:30:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from smtp5.server.rpi.edu (smtp5.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A23F13C46B for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:30:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp5.server.rpi.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m0VJGZhB025683; Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:16:37 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <78cb3d3f0801302245v2183c613t6ecdd9acebbe9ef7@mail.gmail.com> References: <78cb3d3f0801302245v2183c613t6ecdd9acebbe9ef7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:16:35 -0500 To: "Adrian Penisoara" , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam scanning disabled X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not available X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.113.2.225 Cc: Subject: Re: [OT] Q: what would you choose for a VCS today X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:30:28 -0000 At 8:45 AM +0200 1/31/08, Adrian Penisoara wrote: >Hi, > > Side-topic, if you bear with me: if you were to choose again what >to use as source revision control system (VCS) from today's offerings, >what would you choose to maintain FreeBSD's sources or a side-off >project tracking FreeBSD as base that would allow better teams >cooperation and easy code merging between projects/branches ? You'll probably get a different answer from each person... :-) As for me, I'd go with subversion. I also believe 'git' might be a very interesting choice, but I haven't used it enough to know how well it works in practice. And I think that's the basic difficulty in trying to answer your question. Very few people have enough experience with all of the available VCS systems to do a comparison. I have worked a lot with RCS and CVS. I've done a little with perforce, but it is so different than CVS that I can't say that I gave it a fair chance. I just thought "Oh boy, this is too weird!", and went on to some other project. I don't have enough time to take a real project, and try to make the same set of changes to multiple copies of the repository, to see which VCS *really* does a better job for everything which is needed. One of the guys I know swears that darcs is the best thing ever, and I can see how it would work well for some projects, but I can't imagine it working well for a project such as FreeBSD. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu