[UPHPU] Source Control Questions

[jtaber]

Thanks for tip on Meld - wasn't aware of it. 

I thought he did ask for a distributed system, hence Bazaar suggestion.  
It is open source, but not only for open source.  There was a summer of 
code project that involved a new gtk front-end - haven't tried it yet.

John

Bryan Petty wrote:
> On 12/27/06, jtaber <jtaber at johntaber.net> wrote:
>> If you are on linux, try Bazaar - it's a distributed VCS that I think
>> does what you want (btw it's what Ubuntu uses).
>
> I've never used Bazaar, but I was under the impression that it was
> mostly geared for open source GPL'd software. I don't think Dan really
> needs a distributed VCS. Bazaar is still fairly new, and I can't
> really find any decent GUI clients for it.
>
> Subversion can handle every last item on his list of demands, so if
> your developers are already familiar with SVN, and you mostly work on
> Windows, I'd highly recommend going that route as it will be
> quicker/easier to integrate with the added bonus of TortoiseSVN which
> saves me a ridiculous amount of development time compared with every
> other SCM client I've ever touched.
>
> On the subject of diff viewers, I've played with many flavors on
> Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Read on for a very brief review:
>
> * WinMerge (Windows): Again, Windows takes the cut for best tools in
> this field as I'm a huge fan of of this free, open source tool,
> unfortunately, it's Windows-only.
> * Meld (Linux, GTK): I hated this one when I first played with it a
> year or two ago, but in the last month of using it, I've been really
> impressed. It now contains built in support for browsing CVS, SVN, and
> Bazaar directories and doing diffs with a simple double-click. I still
> wish it had support for non-collapsed side-by-side diffs like WinMerge
> though, but it will still remain my favorite linux diff viewer.
> * TortoiseMerge (Windows): This comes installed with TortoiseSVN and
> is really nice for doing code merges between SVN branches, but is
> missing a lot of extra functionality I like to use in WinMerge for.
> * Kdiff3 (Linux, Qt): Probably the best KDE-based comparison tool, but
> can be very confusing at times, and has some serious performance
> issues.
> * Kompare (Linux, Qt): This is an extremely simple, stripped down
> comparison tool based off of Kdiff2, do not use this if you plan to
> actually make source changes, or like syntax highlighting.
> * FileMerge (Mac): This is a free tool provided by Apple in the
> Developer Tools package that provides extremely basic comparison and
> merge functionality without the ability to edit base files in-place.
> * P4Merge (cross-platform, Qt): This is available from Perforce for
> free on all platforms, though I've not actually played with it, so I
> can't say much about it.
> * Araxis Merge (Windows): While I hear good things about this one,
> it's missing features that WinMerge has, and costs $129 per seat for
> the cheapest version.
> * BBEdit / TextWrangler (Mac): Basically provides a third window
> outlining differences in two files open in regular text editor
> windows. Clicking on differences will scroll to them in those windows,
> but there's no color highlighting aside from the syntax highlighting,
> so it's not easy to identify where differences are or what was
> changed.
>
> Regards,
> Bryan Petty
>
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