On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 12:53:36PM -0500, Sreekumar Kodakara wrote: > I am new to CVS and recently I had all my code setup in a CVS in a > machine. The nice thing about this machine is that it is backedup > everyday but the problem is that at times it goes down for a day or > so (I have no control on this) and this creates a problem for me. The recommendation for replication via rsync is really the only viable way of synchronizing two CVS trees. If you want to stick with CVS, use that advice. The "central server" model of development, that many Source Control Management (SCM) systems use, suffers from the problem of lost remote services. There is an additional problem that I have: recommending a FOSS alternative to someone new to revision control. There are a few SCM (Source Control Management) that operate on a fully distributed model: GNU Arch (my favorite), Bazaar (based on GNU Arch), monotone, and of course the venerable SVN (distributed subversion). I prefer to use GNU Arch, but it has a bit of a learning curve. The tutorials are nice and after a while, you get used to the development model and environment that Arch puts you in. Bazaar is an attempt at making GNU Arch more user-friendly and is developed in concert with GNU Arch (they use the same email list). Arch and Bazaar both distribute their archives over known transport protocols, such as HTTP, SFTP, and FTP. In this, they are very flexible and portable. Bazaar-NG is an attempt at writing an SCM in Python, borrowing ideas from Arch and Bazaar but being even more "user friendly". It's mostly vaporware right now, but the developer is working full-time on the project. monotone has been getting some press lately, and it looks like a nice little system. Most of the commands are CVS-like, and it can be self-hosting. In other words, if you want it to act like a "central server" model of development, you can do so by running it in "server mode". This is both a boon and a bane. I mainly see it as a bane because of the special rules you'll have to set up to allow connections through firewalls or NAT boxes. However, you'd be presented with these same problems regardless of the network transport. I don't know anything about SVN, so I won't comment on it. Apparently it's a distributed version of subversion, which was designed to be very CVS like in commands. Anyway, good luck. -- Chad Walstrom <chewie at wookimus.net> http://www.wookimus.net/ assert(expired(knowledge)); /* core dump */ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20050412/9fb0de16/attachment.pgp