Revctrl Wiki

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

Note that you must be logged in to edit pages.

Places to go

• Glossary

• CategoryMergeAlgorithm

• CategoryMergeExample

• WantedPages

• ConceptTable

• RevctrlTalks

#revctrl on irc.freenode.net

People

Resources

• Channel logs 1, Channel logs 2, Channel logs 3

• The Revctrl Mailing List

• Zooko's quick reference

• David Wheeler's essay

• the "Better SCM Initiative": another overview of systems

• RCS Planet - Blog Collection of RCS developers

Interesting starting points:

• RecentChanges: see where people are currently working

• WikiSandBox: feel free to change this page and experiment with editing

• FindPage: search or browse the database in various ways

• SyntaxReference: quick access to wiki syntax

• SiteNavigation: get an overview over this site and what it contains

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.

How to use this site

A Wiki is a collaborative site, anyone can contribute and share:

• Edit any page by pressing GetText(Edit) at the top or the bottom of the page

• Create a link to another page with joined capitalized words (like WikiSandBox) or with [[words in brackets]]

• Search for page titles or text within pages using the search box at the top of any page

• See HelpForBeginners to get you going, HelpContents for all help pages.

• See the WikiNode to see other wiki closely related to this one, where you can discuss things that are a little off-topic for the Revctrl wiki.

To learn more about what a WikiWikiWeb is, read about WhyWikiWorks and the WikiNature. Also, consult the WikiWikiWebFaq.

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