[ILUG] source control systems

[Colin Rooney]

No GIT experience, but have been experimenting with Bazaar which is the
default SCS on the new open source repository launchpad.net.  To be honest I
hadn't heard of it until I looked at putting a project on launchpad.


Anyway, it's still early days so I wouldn't like to offer support yet but
I'm guessing if Canonical are using it it must be decent enough.  I did find
this GIT/Bazaar comparison that I thought was very interesting ... and fair
to GIT.
http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrVsGit

http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrWhy has more other links to comparisons.

The user guide gives a good overview
http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/latest/en/user-guide/index.html

In particular the use of the gatekeeper approach (whether that be a person
of what they call a PQM) is interesting
http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/latest/en/user-guide/index.html#using-gatekeepers

There is a Bazaar plugin for eclipse which was a little tricky to install -
but by no means impossible.  There are also standalone tools - Olive is the
one I have... I think it was in the Ubuntu repository.

As I say - I have not had enough experience to give the "thumbs up" yet but
it seems to work well and I think it is something worth considering.  I only
mention it because I wasn't aware of it myself until recently so perhaps it
is not as well known!?

Colin

2009/5/8 Dave Rearden <dave.rearden at openjawtech.com>

> hi all,
>
> we currently use CVS here, but we're increasingly facing problems with
> large checkouts timing-out over VPNs. our main office is in dublin, with
> secondary offices in galway and madrid.
>
> we'd ideally like to have 3 synchronized repositories, one in each
> location, that take care of their own replication.
>
> i understand GIT is capable of such magic, has anyone ever set this up?
>
> i'm also aware of SVK, but it doesn't suit our needs as people will need to
> check in at all 3 repoisoties, not just the "master".
>
> thanks,
>
> dave.
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