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Choices to consider
Choices to consider
*  Subversion - default choice, and the obvious "safe" choice.  Pros: familiar to us, used by a lot of people  Cons: very centralized model; need to give people access to facilitate effective collaboration
[http://subversion.tigris.org/ Subversion] - default choice, and the obvious "safe" choice.  Pros: familiar to us, used by a lot of people  Cons: very centralized model; need to give people access to facilitate effective collaboration
*  Mercurial - bleeding edge choice.  Pros: Distributed model makes it easier for anyone to distribute patchsets off of the main codebase without needing a central host.  Much easier to maintain a private branch.  Cons: more complicated model, less familiar, much newer system (I've never used it, just received a recommendation) [http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/]
[http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/ Mercurial] - bleeding edge choice.  Pros: Distributed model makes it easier for anyone to distribute patchsets off of the main codebase without needing a central host.  Much easier to maintain a private branch.  Cons: more complicated model, less familiar, much newer system (I've never used it, just received a recommendation)
* [http://svk.bestpractical.com/view/HomePage svk] - a decentralized revision control system built on top of svn.


Other systems can be found here:
Other systems can be found here:

Revision as of 10:17, 2 January 2007

Linden Lab doesn't yet provide live access to a central revision control repository for the viewer source code. However, this is being considered.

Choices to consider

  • Subversion - default choice, and the obvious "safe" choice. Pros: familiar to us, used by a lot of people Cons: very centralized model; need to give people access to facilitate effective collaboration
  • Mercurial - bleeding edge choice. Pros: Distributed model makes it easier for anyone to distribute patchsets off of the main codebase without needing a central host. Much easier to maintain a private branch. Cons: more complicated model, less familiar, much newer system (I've never used it, just received a recommendation)
  • svk - a decentralized revision control system built on top of svn.

Other systems can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_revision_control_software