Personal versioning manager

[Ñuño Martínez]

Hello.

I was thinking about use a "version manager" for my personal projects. At job we're using subversion (svn) and it's great but I'm not sure if it's a good option for personal work. I love to re-invent the wheel and I even planed my very own personal version manager but finally I decided to ask if you are using a version manager for your personal projects.

I'm looking for something simple, ease to get change logs and multi platform. With multi platform I mean that I have a disk partition shared by WinXP and Linux for common data, so I commit changes from Linux, then I reboot in WinXP and just update the project.

What are your thoughts and experience?

[Brainer]

I currently have two open projects, the first one uses CVS and the second one SVN. I do use "version controllers" because I can easily keep track of the changes I made throughout the development process.

[Ñuño Martínez]

Thanks, Brainer.

No more suggestions? :?

[noeska]

Not useable ones anyway i have been using webpm and sourceftp in the past. But both are not maintained by its developers anymore.

WebPM was to complicated by having to upload your sources by webbrowser.

Sourceftp does what you want. But you cannot get changelogs from it. http://www.devage.com/archive/SourceFtp_App.zip

But if you feel like reinventing the wheel please do. As i feel svn and cvs are a bit overkill for personal projects.

[AthenaOfDelphi]

Hi,

I'm using Subversion (just getting started). I have in the past used Visual SourceSafe. I found that to be nice and easy to use although I'm not sure how it would fair against your list of requirements.

Heres a couple of others you may want to consider...

http://www.devrace.com/en/athlant/ - Athlant
http://jedivcs.sourceforge.net/ - Jedi VCS

I've never used either of them so I can't comment.

[technomage]

Personally, I'd go with Subversion. I've used it in personal projects for years, and have managed to get both of the last two companies I have worked for to switch from M$ source control (VS &TFS) to subversion.

It's very easy to use, well maintained and supported and it's also free

[marcov]

I use SVN in the FPC project, and also at work.

In the past I've used SourceOffSite, SourceSafe, Jedi VCS and CVS. I still like SVN best.

Specially if with 1.5.x merge tracking will get less problematic.

The only wishlist item then is to be able to remove a file entirely from the history (e.g. due to copyright disputes). Now you have to export the SVN db, postedit the export, and then reimport.

[noeska]

Today i found the following vcs system written in delphi: http://www.radix.net/~bziegler/Delphi/
Dont know yet how good it is. But at at first look it looks fairly complete and useable.