Concerning [scite] Re: RCS in Scite? Ion Frantzis wrote on 15 Mar 2007, 11:21, at least in part:
[text is snipped] > OK. A friend of mine corrected my colossal naivety(stupidity). CVS > is what most people use and it seems like CVS can do what I need. > Which is basically small scale revision control. I don't want to > install a database to manage my code I just want something light and > simple to save me from having hundreds of versions of my files lying > around. So RCS is out CVS is in. Well, I hear the song going for one more verse: CVS is out SVN is in ... Personally I don't know more about CVS other than having read its manual and compared it with SVN (Subversion version control) and then going for SVN. That was 2 or 3 years back when it still was alpha at ver. .27. I dropped out at ver. 1 and returned around 1.3 (meanwhile 1.4.3, with 1.5 probably out soon), much pleased with progress in both performance and stability. Performance especially judged on a P200 with 208 MB RAM system. SVN comes with filebased (FSFS, the default) and Berkeley BDB backends. We use it with the latter, served through Apache webserver, but if used by one user on one machine you won't need Apache or the the built-in svnserve, rather use SVN's file:/// access method for either of the backends, just as either backend allows for later growth into a multiuser/LAN system. FSFS reportedly is similar to the way CVS handles stuff, though not the same. Anyway, SVN handles backend creation transparently for you. Also, for single-user-single-machine purpose TortoiseSVN, basically a Windows shell extension for SVN, should be everything you need at all, from start to finish. As for ScitE menu commands TortoiseSVN also provides for this, on the line of Philippe's suggestions. Check TortoiseSVN help for commandline options; I did it once for Homesite editor, though using it very little, rather using TSVN directly, but that depends on personal habits and general needs/purpose. If not on Windows you can use svn commandline instead, probably there are GUIs like TSVN for other platforms as well. http://subversion.tigris.org/ http://tortoisesvn.net HTH Jan Hendrik --------------------------------------- Freedom quote: Liberty has never come from the government ... The history of liberty is the history of resistance ... a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it. -- Woodrow Wilson _______________________________________________ Scite-interest mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/scite-interest
