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| CVS is fundamentally a UNIX program, but there are several different clients available. WinCVS is the most commonly used, but it's not very easy for non-technical people to use. At a couple of shops I've worked at we used CVS for code and Microsoft's VSS for documents. This is a bad idea for a lot of reasons, not least of which is that it requires you to use Windows to access version control. That's why I'm really excited about TortoiseCVS http://www.tortoisecvs.org/ which is a very well-designed Windows interface for CVS. It plugs into the Windows File Explorer so there's no new UI to learn; you perform version control operations from within a tool that everybody already knows how to use. Cool! (You can make TortoiseCVS play nicely with Cygwin if you tell TortoiseCVS to use your Cygwin home directory as its home. That way you can check out a directory tree using TortoiseCVS and then do cvs operations in Cygwin without having to login again. right click->CVS->Preferences... then click on the "Quirky" tab) | ||||||||
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| < < | arch is another version control system that attempts to fix the problems in CVS while adding new features. It's had an interesting life so far; the primary developer went bust while writing it and it's since been picked up by other folks. http://www.fifthvision.net/open/bin/view/Arch | |||||||
| > > | arch is another version control system that attempts to fix the problems in CVS while adding new features. It's had an interesting life so far; the primary developer went bust while writing it and it's since been picked up by other folks and has become a GNU project. http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/ | |||||||
| darcs is a patch-oriented version control system. It's interesting in that it doesn't look at code in terms of a tree that evolves over time, but in terms of a set of patches that product a desired result. http://abridgegame.org/darcs/ | ||||||||