Version Control Blog

John Goerzen tells a story about his evaluation of SCM tools for the following problem:

One of my tests was a real problem: I wanted to track the Linux 2.6.16.x kernel tree, apply the Xen patches to it, and pull only specific patches (for the qla2xxx driver) from 2.6.17.x into this local branch. I wanted also to be able to upgrade to 2.6.17.x later (once Xen supports it) and have the version control system properly track which patches I already have.

John Goerzen “Whose Distributed VCS Is The Most Distributed?”

Joey Hess, a famous Debian hacker, wrote long ago an article about how he was keeping his entire home directory under version control, using CVS. Now, as CVS gets replaced by Subversion, he switched to it, and new article was released. He gives advice on how to split private and public projects, how to keep configuration files under version control, how to use the same home directory on multiple machines. Of course, main advantages of described approach are distributed backups (including inherent mini-backups in form of file copies in the .svn directory); history of your work and configuration changes, including rollback and comparisons; and single synchronized workspace across every machine you’re using. Read more at OnLamp: Joey Hess “Keeping Your Life in Subversion” or at his blog: joey: “Subverting your homedir, or keeping your life in svn” (contains extra links and updates).

From: Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com>
Date: 2006-09-16 16:45:41 CEST

It’s been almost a year since version 1.3.0 came out, and during that time we have been very busy working on version 1.4.0. And now, we have released TortoiseSVN 1.4.0. The whole user interface of TortoiseSVN got improvements, and there also are a lot of improvements under the hood. The major changes are all mentioned in our release notes: http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/tsvn_1.4_releasenotes.html make sure you read them. You can download version 1.4.0 from our download page http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads Enjoy the new version and all the improvements in it :) Stefan

TortoiseSVN homepage is at http://tortoisesvn.net/