• VersionControl

I'm occasionally amazed to discover shops that don't use a version control tool. This is almost like finding someone who lives in a modern city but doesn't have an electricity hookup.

I started out with RCS and had a few minor reversions to SCCS. I've used a number of proprietary systems, over the years, but have never found them to be as usable as the open source stuff--first CVS and now SVN. I'd love to use SVK if I could use an Eclipse plug-in as convenient as Subclipse.

SVK

Some comments on using SVK for local work from a SVN repository

• http://tim.littlebluefrog.com/?p=557

• http://andthennothing.net/tags/svk

• http://cwilliams.textdriven.com/articles/2007/02/16/svn-and-svk

• http://scottstuff.net/blog/articles/2005/07/07/distributed-development-with-svk

• http://octopod.info/2006/8/19/managing-multiple-local-mephisto-repos-with-svk

SVN

Switching from CVS to SVN

Guides

• http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/doc/user/cvs-crossover-guide.html

• http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/08/19/subversiontips.html

Instructions

• http://sam.zoy.org/writings/programming/svn2cvs.html

• http://hoopajoo.net/misc/converting_to_svn.html

Branching

• http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.branchmerge.html

• http://blog.evanweaver.com/articles/2007/08/15/svn-branching-best-practices-in-practice/

• http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kde-soc/2005-July/000039.html