I started playing with darcs this week. It's nice - it solves all the problems of CVS, doesn't require a big server installation, and has very friendly command lines. It should be more popular.
Here's some preliminary notes:
One thing I really like about svk is that it can choose to present itself as a "single stack of revisions" monolithic system, or as a "multiple stacks, star-merged back and forth" decentralized system, or even a "shallow stack of patch chains, swapped freely" system, based on the current needs of the user.
It's also nonintrusive for existing p4, cvs, svn (and soon arch) repositories, as you don't have to convince everybody else to use the same system.
I sincerely encourage you to play with svk 0.22, to be released next Monday. </plug>
Re:Also see svk. :-)
Matts on 2004-09-30T20:23:18
It's still too hard to install. Far too easy to get stuck in CPAN dependency hell.
Is there a PAR?Re:Also see svk. :-)
autrijus on 2004-09-30T22:23:53
For which operating system?:) There is prebuilt binary for Win32 and OS X, and packages for mandrake, RH, fink and debian. See InstallingSVK for details.
I'd be glad to help producing a PAR binary for your OS if there's no packages/ports for it.
