From: mathew Date: 2006-01-04T04:38:08+09:00 Subject: Re: Ruby projects and interfaces to revision control systems (Darcs vs. Cogito) mental@rydia.net wrote: > It's lunch time, so here are my own (very opinionated) thoughts on > the matter: Well, if we're doing opinions: CVS: Works well if you're a development team of 1 person with good connectivity to your CVS server. Not a good idea for large teams, distributed teams, or large projects. SVN: Used to be an absolute PITA to get working, because it relied on WebDAV & Apache2. I instinctively dislike anything which keeps all your code in a weird binary format, which was also a problem with SVN at first. If I were going to use it (which I might), I'd go with the flat file back-end and dedicated SVN server. Arch: Does all the back-end stuff right. Keeps your source in its original format, keeps releases and diffs as .tar.gz, and so on. Was severaly broken for a long time, in that it choked on filenames with spaces in. That was fixed, and I gave it a try, but unfortunately the command line UI is truly horrendous. I used it for a while, then gave up because it was too hard to work out how to do anything, even with cheat sheets. Monotone: Does the right thing for a very open and distributed project, where security is an issue. Probably overkill if you know and trust all your developers, though. Bazaar: A fork of Arch that attempted to fix the UI hideousness. Dead, according to the FAQ on the Bazaar-NG pages. Bazaar-NG: The back-end of Arch with the UI of SVN. Probably pretty good, therefore. Bad experiences with getting Python working in the past put me off a little. git, cogito: A crude hack thrown together because Linus made the stupid decision to put all Linux's code in a proprietary RCS (BitKeeper), the owner of the proprietary RCS threw a hissy fit when people tried to make open source clients interoperable with it, and suddenly nobody could get a free license for the client any more. Assembled from shell scripts, which alone should be enough to convince anyone to stay far away. Darcs: Looks good. I'd probably use it if it was in a more mainstream language. mathew -- My parents went to the lost kingdom of Hyrule and all I got was this lousy triforce.