Has anyone used Subversion?

signalseeker · Post by **signalseeker** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 7:46 pm

I recently looked for one but ended up settling on www.github.com and going with git.

It is far more simple and easier to use.

However, cvsdude was number 1 on my list for subversion.

Hope that helps.

zweiterlinde · Post by **zweiterlinde** » Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:04 pm

Definitely recommend looking into distributed VCSs. git is nice, but my fave is Mercurial.

Sweet online hosting option: bitbucket.

Polter · Post by **Polter** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 12:19 am

opmtrader, you might want to take a look at http://www.xp-dev.com/

FDAXHunter · Post by **FDAXHunter** » Sat Sep 19, 2009 3:56 pm

We use Plastic SCM, which I quite like. It's very powerful.

mj · Post by mj » Sat Sep 19, 2009 11:41 pm

both xlw and quantlib use SVN.

I use tortoiseSVN as the client.

It's ok. Main annoyance is finding out a bunch of conflicts because someone's reformatted the file you are working on.

danko · Post by **danko** » Mon Sep 21, 2009 6:16 pm

yo fdax, would you mind giving a little more detail as to why you use Plastic SCM rather than standard SVN?

pj · Post by pj » Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:36 am

Dear FDAXunter,

Do you use Plastic SCM for, khm, Excel/VBA?

Dimatrix · Post by **Dimatrix** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 11:54 am

Cool, Plastic SCM has a Visual Studio integration

FDAXHunter · Post by **FDAXHunter** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 12:01 pm

pj:

I don't really use Excel to write much code.

You could use Plastic SCM for Excel, easily. Mind you that Excel uses binary format for it's files, so some of the code analysis features don't work (same for any other SCM system).

danko:

I prefer Plastic SCM because the whole system has been designed back-to-front by the same house. It has great Visual Studio integration (Eclipse, etc. alll available as well). It's fully distributed (multiple servers, multiple sites).

It also features a lot of visualization/code analysis tools that are built in. It's nice to work with, in particular the branch explorer is very helpful.

Of course, it's not free (but they have a free trial and it's free for academic/open source).

FDAXHunter · Post by **FDAXHunter** » Tue Sep 22, 2009 7:11 pm

pj, apparently there's an office plug-in for Plastic SCM as well now....