[sldev] Setting up source version control, for beginners?

Ricky kf6kjg at gmail.com
Thu Jul 24 21:23:12 PDT 2008


On Windoze I find that I like TortoiseSVN ( http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ )
for accessing existing repositories.

If you want a standalone versioning system... I'm at a loss... I've always
built a full Subversion repository on my Linux box.  Not hard to do on most
common distros.

Ricky

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Ryan Williams (Which) <rdw at lindenlab.com>
wrote:

> Jason Giglio wrote:
>
>> Dale Mahalko wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I am (again) starting to poke at the source and I see what a huge
>>> undertaking it is to edit a raw directory source files. I have to keep
>>> track of what I changed, where I changed it, and what the original
>>> looked like in case I ever want to revert my changes or compare to the
>>> original.
>>>
>>> I have absolutely no experience with version control but it looks like
>>> I'm going to need to learn how to use it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> No, not really.  You can do those basic tasks above with simpler tools.
>>  You will need to learn/use diff, patch, and possibly rsync and the svn
>> client only.
>>
>> For just a single user editing the source, you really don't need a full
>> version control server setup.
>>
>>
> Mercurial is a nice choice for the single-user case because you don't have
> to set up a server.  Just 'hg init' and 'hg addremove' in your directory and
> you're good to go*.  It's all self-contained.
>
> -RYaN
>
> * Not sure if this is the exactly the precise set of commands you want to
> issue, but it's pretty close.
>
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