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7 Version Control Systems Reviewed
Wednesday September 24, 2008

After writing my first blog entry in a while on Mac OS X Subversion/svn Clients, I ran into the following article on the server side of source control, and thought I would pass it on to others

7 Version Control Systems Reviewed

At the moment the ones I use on a day to day basis are

Subversion - Since my project was moved to Squawk @ java.net, was logical to use the same repository mechanism that was the most up to date
Mercurial - I wanted a local and a server based repository tool, and had heard about git. But as was usual, I procrastinated for a while before taking the plunge, only to find out that our own Java organization (such as OpenJDK) was going with Mercurial, so I went with it. So far very happy with it.

I have just started using Mercurial in my day to day, in order for me to be able to do local commits without having to affect the central Subversion repository. This works really well for me, and here is an article I found on how to do this

HOW TO USE MERCURIAL FOR LOCAL SOURCE CODE MANAGEMENT WITH A PUBLIC SUBVERSION SERVER

The article has a couple of things I remember being confusing and I've intended to provide my own short version of it, but decided to just pass this information on, sooner rather than later.

Here is an additional link I found that I thought should be part of this entry, just replace git with mercurial :)

3 Reasons to Switch to Git from Subversion

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