My favorite FOSS source control system is

Submitted by Jeremy
on April 7, 2005 - 8:13am
CVS
24% (584 votes)
Subversion
37% (884 votes)
Monotone
3% (76 votes)
Darcs
10% (232 votes)
GNU Arch
6% (147 votes)
Bazaar
1% (19 votes)
Bazaar-NG
3% (77 votes)
Vesta
0% (11 votes)
Codeville
0% (5 votes)
SVK
2% (38 votes)
not listed, I can't believe it!
6% (146 votes)
dependant on which project I'm working with.
7% (174 votes)
Total votes: 2393

svn

Anonymous (not verified)
on
April 7, 2005 - 2:39pm

Must admit, I'm surprised at the huge lead subversion has (I am a happy svn'er myself)..

Not that surprised

on
April 7, 2005 - 7:26pm

Well I'm not that surprised, it works pretty well for sensible sized projects :)

svn

Anonymous (not verified)
on
April 8, 2005 - 8:27am

BTW, a few large projects do use subversion.

not listed!

Anonymous (not verified)
on
April 8, 2005 - 3:00am

I am the SCM.

Not listed: aegis

Anonymous (not verified)
on
April 8, 2005 - 7:25am

See also aegis.

Not my personal favourite, but it exists.

future ...

Anonymous (not verified)
on
April 8, 2005 - 12:47pm

OpenCVS ...

CVSNT... http://www.cvsnt.or

AC (not verified)
on
April 13, 2005 - 6:55pm

ArX

graue (not verified)
on
April 8, 2005 - 8:28pm

ArX looks really nice. It descends from the original arch (not tla/GNU arch, the one before that) and is easier to use with some cool extra features.

git!

Anonymous (not verified)
on
April 10, 2005 - 12:34pm

git!

git != SCM

Anonymous (not verified)
on
April 10, 2005 - 2:43pm

git is not a SCM. It does not even support merging.

Linus, is that you?! ;-) W

Anonymous (not verified)
on
April 14, 2005 - 4:56pm

Linus, is that you?! ;-)

While git itself is "just a filesystem," the SCM built atop it is just about ready to support merging.

And is called cogito ?

Anonymous (not verified)
on
April 15, 2005 - 8:23am

There was a discussion that the scripts on top where to be called gogito. Not sure if that is going to stick yet.

What is git

Lavanya Kumar A (not verified)
on
April 19, 2005 - 4:45am

What is git?

Just now i gone thru this thread and I am unable to understand what is it.

Git is

Angel Freire (not verified)
on
April 23, 2005 - 5:30pm

Git is a small filesytem designed to buy a SCM in top of it.
It was born after the decision of stop using BitKepper in the Linux Kernel by Linus Torvals, the proyect itself was started by him and now there are a couple of person coperating with it, also there are other ones building scripts that take adventaje of the options that git provides, those scripts are, maybe, gonna to be the next SCM using for kernel maintenance.
The last version, as you can read in this site, of the kernel was the first to be builded using this system.

As a bazaar developer, I thin

Anonymous (not verified)
on
April 15, 2005 - 12:37am

As a bazaar developer, I think that anybody that prefers Gnu Arch over Bazaar simply hasn't tried bazaar yet. :)

I use Xtla for GNU Arch, and

NebuchadnezzzaR (not verified)
on
April 24, 2005 - 7:56am

I use Xtla for GNU Arch, and I am happy :-)

what I prefer

Anonymous (not verified)
on
April 17, 2005 - 6:37am

For small/medium size projects - darcs is great.

For large projects I still use CVS (although I don't like it very much).

I heard that tla (arch) is good for large projects - but it seems to be

to hard to learn...

Arch isn't that difficult to

Anonymous (not verified)
on
April 23, 2005 - 5:13pm

Arch isn't that difficult to learn.. but it is a chore to use.

Arch a chore to use?

Charles Duffy (not verified)
on
July 7, 2005 - 11:36am

That's why one uses Baz (aka Bazaar) instead. Exact same archive format (now that Arch has picked up their optional improved one), sanity-enhanced frontend, plus a few extra features and other improvements.

p4

Maxime Henrion (not verified)
on
May 9, 2005 - 7:14am

I indeed can't believe that Perforce (www.perforce.com) has not been listed yet!

The model of paying for an SC

Anonymous (not verified)
on
May 12, 2005 - 4:06pm

The model of paying for an SCM just does not seem to be viable at this point in time. The open source SCM solutions are too good, too well integrated with various development tools and too well understood by developers to select a commercial vendor. Just see how many Perforce books there are compared to CVS or Subversion. Sorry if you have a vested interest in that company, but I dont know any developer anywhere that is not using an open source SCM as their only SCM at this point. I am sure there are some but it seems they are going to be a shrinking population.

I'm not so sure about this, b

Maxime Henrion (not verified)
on
May 19, 2005 - 11:03am

I'm not so sure about this, but I don't want to enter an argument about Perforce not being free and the possible consequences etc... I'll just point out that p4 is entirely free for any OpenSource project and that it's incredibly great to use.

Yes, Perforce is very good

Ted (not verified)
on
June 3, 2005 - 10:13am

Having used Perforce--for free--on open source projects, I must agree with Maxime. Since this isn't the place for yet another free/open argument I'll just leave this as a positive nod towards P4.

Indeed, perforce is my person

Anonymous (not verified)
on
May 13, 2005 - 3:44pm

Indeed, perforce is my personal favorite, and the favorite of many serious software companies as well.

concurrence

concurrence (not verified)
on
June 20, 2005 - 11:36am

anyone use the Python-based concurrence, server or client?

It's for editing text but I suppose it could be engineered to version code.

Why isn't TLA mentioned? It

Anonymous1854_d (not verified)
on
July 19, 2005 - 11:18am

Why isn't TLA mentioned?
It is much better than subversion!

because...

Anonymous_coward (not verified)
on
July 27, 2005 - 10:00pm

tla is also called arch.

SourceSafe?

quamaretto (not verified)
on
July 19, 2005 - 3:11pm

Why wasn't SourceSafe on the list?

Oh, that's right. Nevermind.

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