[Discuss] Version Control systems [WAS: Possible backup scenarios for a 500GB drive]

[Jeremy Kiffiak]

Daniel, Alan and whomever else wants to chime in,

What about other versioning control systems?  How does SVN compare?   
Specifically I am interested in hearing about SVN in contrast with  
git though I am happy to hear about other alternatives as well.

1) how easy is it to set up initially?
2)  learn how to use?
3)  personal experience and anecdotal information

Thanks.

Jeremy


On 27-Oct-07, at 7:56 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> On 2007-10-27 17:46-0700 chris wakefield wrote:
>
>> OnOctober 26, 2007 01:00:43 pm Daniel M German wrote:
>>> Have you thought of using subversion as a home-directory-backup
>>> mechanism? I use it like that and to synchronize across
>>> computers. Works great.
>>>
>>> Of course the best/simplest/easiest backup system is being released
>>> today, but it costs money and runs on a very small subset of
>>> computers. It will change the way _some_ people do their personal
>>> backups, I am sure.
>>>
>>> I used to use backupPC. Works great, incremental backups, it waits
>>> until the computer connects to the network to backup. But it is a  
>>> pain
>>> to administer. I stop using it since I upgraded my linux box.
>>>
>>> --dmg
>> Daniel, what is subversion like to set up? ..... too easy, easy,  
>> OK or unix
>> man page hard?
>
> I am sure Daniel will want to answer this question, but I would  
> like to
> answer as well because I have had a lot of really good recent  
> experience
> with subversion as a result of converting 6 different SourceForge  
> projects
> from CVS to subversion, and then just using subversion from then on  
> for each
> of the projects.
>
> Setting up a local subversion repository and learning how to use a
> subversion client is easy if you have had prior experience with CVS  
> or some
> other version control system, and you are comfortable with the  
> command line.
> If you have never ever used a version control system getting  
> started with
> subversion will be harder. However, if you plan to work with  
> computers at
> all, then I believe version control system skills are worth  
> developing, and
> subversion is an excellent starting system to help you do that  
> because it is
> so well documented in the downloadable book at http://svnbook.red- 
> bean.com/.
> Also, don't be intimidated by the size of the book.  The quick- 
> start part of
> the book at http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn- 
> book.html#svn.intro does
> exactly what its title says.
>
> Alan
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