[Therion] Version Control Systems and Therion

2009-11-16 Thread Julian Todd
As people have realized, getting cavers to understand/use version control systems at all is incredibly difficult. While a distributed version control would be the best answer -- especially in the field -- they are impossible for normal people to use. It will go wrong immediately, and people will

[Therion] Version Control Systems and Therion

2009-11-16 Thread Andrew Atkinson
Bruce If you have beginners, I personally would stick to one that does have a central record somewhere, if you want to support decentralised systems fine, but set it up in a way that the beginners can just log onto the 'central' record and have to 'commit' every change. I have now tried using

[Therion] Version Control Systems and Therion

2009-11-16 Thread Aaron Birenboim
Andrew Atkinson wrote: > Bruce > > If you have beginners, I personally would stick to one that does have a > central record somewhere, if you want to support decentralised systems > fine, but set it up in a way that the beginners can just log onto the > 'central' record and have to 'commit' every

[Therion] Version Control Systems and Therion

2009-11-16 Thread Aaron Birenboim
Martin Lüthi wrote: > Hi again > > At Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:49:46 -0700, > Aaron Birenboim wrote: >>> For the purpose of tracking files and exchanging them with collegues, only >>> decentralized VC makes sense (maybe with a central repository, but that is >>> not >>> important). CVS is dead, SVN

[Therion] Version Control Systems and Therion

2009-11-15 Thread Martin Lüthi
Hi again At Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:49:46 -0700, Aaron Birenboim wrote: > > For the purpose of tracking files and exchanging them with collegues, only > > decentralized VC makes sense (maybe with a central repository, but that is > > not > > important). CVS is dead, SVN is not very good for that

[Therion] Version Control Systems and Therion

2009-11-15 Thread Martin Lüthi
Hi At Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:48:09 +0300, Vasily Vl. Suhachev wrote: > We are using Mercurial distributed VCS. Main repository maintained by > myself, other contributors bring changes to me on flash-cards or send > patch-files by email OK, nobody has mentioned git yet, so I'll do it. Frankly I have

[Therion] Version Control Systems and Therion

2009-11-15 Thread Aaron Birenboim
Martin Lüthi wrote: > Hi > > At Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:48:09 +0300, > Vasily Vl. Suhachev wrote: >> We are using Mercurial distributed VCS... > For the purpose of tracking files and exchanging them with collegues, only > decentralized VC makes sense (maybe with a central repository, but that is

[Therion] Version Control Systems and Therion

2009-11-15 Thread Bruce
Eighteen months ago there was some discussion about VCS that people were using with Therion. We have two largish projects and soon to be three people working on their own copies of the files that every now and again I try to merge into a coherent dataset. I suspect it's well passed the time

[Therion] Version Control Systems and Therion

2009-11-15 Thread Vasily Vl. Suhachev
Hello We are using Mercurial distributed VCS. Main repository maintained by myself, other contributors bring changes to me on flash-cards or send patch-files by email It is possible to get free mercurial hosting: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MercurialHosting -- WBR, Vasily