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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 5:17 PM, <<a href="mailto:skip@pobox.com">skip@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
With all these distributed revision control systems now available (bzr, hg,<br>
darcs, svk, many more), I find I need an introduction to the concepts and<br>
advantages of repository distribution. It seems to me that it has the<br>
potential for leading to anarchy, though I can see how some things would be<br>
improved (working offline, maintaining local patches). It's not obvious how<br>
I push changes back upstream. Can someone point me to some useful content<br>
(web pages or books) which will help me wrap my brain around the ideas?<br>
Maybe a compare/contrast of the major players?</blockquote><div>Unfortunately, Wikipedia's article doesn't seem up to snuff.<br><a href="http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/scm.html">http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/scm.html</a> seems like a good overview of various players.<br>
<a href="http://ianclatworthy.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/dvcs-why-and-how3.pdf">http://ianclatworthy.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/dvcs-why-and-how3.pdf</a> tells you why you should use it.<br>I have found Bazaar's user guide to be a very gently gentle introduction to the topic: <a href="http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/bzr.dev/en/user-guide/index.html">http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/bzr.dev/en/user-guide/index.html</a><br>
When you're ready for laughs, you can watch Linus give a talk on git: <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8">http://youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8</a><br><br>For anything else, Google it!<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Skip</blockquote><div>Cheers,<br>Benjamin Peterson <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
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