Revctrl Wiki

For discussion, whiteboarding and archival of knowledge of revision control systems.

Places to go

• Glossary

• CategoryMergeAlgorithm

• CategoryMergeExample

• ConceptTable

• RevctrlTalks

• #revctrl on irc.freenode.net

Resources

• The Revctrl Mailing List
• Zooko's quick reference
• the "Better SCM Initiative": another overview of systems
• RCS Planet - Blog Collection of RCS developers
• Revision Control Bibliography for more academically leaning publications on revision control

It would be nice to have a summary of the top N distributed version control systems, with some tips to help a programmer choose the best one for her situation. (Wikipedia lists over a dozen distributed control systems). Perhaps use http://lwn.net/Articles/151624/ as a starting point for a quick paraphrase and summary, then fill in other systems and details as we think of them? What to call that summary -- PickingYourVersionControlSystem?

Is it possible to make a NeutralInterface ?

Links

• a mailing list and a wiki for storing $HOME in VCS.
• a mailing list about maintaining distro packages in VCS.
• SWiK: the Open Software wiki has a brief overview of SCM in general, Mercurial, Subversion (SVN), the TortoiseSVN Windows Shell Extension,JavaSVN, etc.