[nylug-talk] version control options

[H. G.]

On 8/21/07, Rajesh Menon <menon.rajesh at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I'm interested in knowing what source control system big organisations
> like Google,Microsoft,Sun,... use.
> Are they ones out there in the public domain, or do they have
> specialized ones they built for their own, internal use?
>
> Also, from your experiences, what's a decent system to be put in use
> if you were setting one up for your company? I've tried CVS,SVN,Hg,
> and a couple others I don't remember, and SVN is being used for now -
> mainly 'cos it's good enough and has a lot of front-end support for
> people who aren't comfy with the cli.
> I'm thinking of giving Hg and git a shot to see how they handle
> things, and see if the users find them easy to work with. What have
> been your experiences with them, if any?
>
> Thanks.
>

A lot of the bigwigs swear by Perforce. It was in use at the last place I
was
at (large financial).

Used it myself, imho its not bad.  They
have GUI and console clients, and they've
offered clients for many of the major OSes.  You can even download it and
give it a spin for free if you're below a certain seat limit (I think).

Its pretty decent with branch management (if I'm not mistaken, its superior
to
SVN in this respect) and it has very nice features like custom "workspaces",

history tree visualization (GUI client) and more.