Posts Tagged ‘subversion’
Quick Guide to Mercurial for svn Users
Posted on July, 9 at 9:31 am | Filed Under CM, Python
Ned Batchelder has put together a quick guide to mercurial basic commands for subversion folks who are part of the move from a centralized version control tool like subversion to mercurial, a distributed version control system. You can read it here. Mercurial (and other dvcs tools like git and bzr) seems to be gathering steam [...]
A Mistake to Use Open Source Version Control Tools?
Posted on October, 1 at 6:58 pm | Filed Under CM
I’m noticing that software shops from small mom and pop IS organizations to large Independent Software Vendors continue to adopt open source tools for version control and configuration management. I wonder if this is a mistake. Open source communities are very different from most software shops that write code for pay. While the open source [...]
How much extra does Changeset Version Control cost developers?
Posted on September, 23 at 9:07 am | Filed Under CM
I have written before about the benefit of advanced configuration management using change sets, namely that it gives you a clear understanding of what is in a build of your software and allows you to control that at a higher level than just individual file versions. The problem some developers face though, is that those [...]
