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Hi,

At the moment I am playing with the fossil SCM (www.fossil-scm.org). The main reason is : it is fully written in C and it is only one executable like Darcs.

I'm very happy using Darcs, but I'm looking for a DVCS which can be used on any OS. To my mind, any developper should be free to work on its prefered platform. So, if you work on Mint, BeOS, Inferno, Plan9, Linux, MacOSX, Windows and so on, only fossil scm fits this requirement.

So, I'm using at the day to day life Darcs, Fossil and Mercurial. I will post some conclusion later (end of January I hope).

Anyway, I was looking for some information around ClearCase and I found 2 website giving some tips on the way to improve clearcase by using Git. You can replace in the article Git by any DVCS like Darcs or Fossil or Hg (mercurial).

So, feel free to have a look on :
1. Improve ClearCase use thanks to a DVCS, with an explication about the interest. Example using Git as a DVCS. To read first! Very interesting.
2. Using a DVCS like an addon to ClearCase. Git is used as a DVCS. It is only a method, and no specific reason description.

EDIT: January 14th 2011
1. various point of view about working with a DVCS on the top of ClearCase

Labels: CC, clearcase, darcs, dvcs, fossil, git, hg, mercurial

Hi,

I have just found 2 interesting website about source code hosting. As a DARCS DVCS user, I was looking for a public host solution. And I have found :

1. http://patch-tag.com/ : for DARCS and GIT users.
2. http://chiselapp.com/ : for FOSSIL users

An interesting overview on various source forge public server :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_software_hosting_facilities


And some reading about FOSSIL :
http://traustithor.blogspot.com/2009/03/fossil-version-control-system.html
http://sheddingbikes.com/posts/1276624594.html
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1433387
http://blog.h3rald.com/fossil-a-tiny-easy-and-feature-packed-project
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/09/18/the-top-7-open-source-version-control-systems/


Various discussion around "which is the best DVCS for bla, bla bla"
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2098590/best-versioning-system-for-r

Git for Windows

Few months ago, I was looking for an interesting distributed Version Control System. I had not found Git for windows. But now it is : http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/

For ones who loves SNC, you should have a look on SVK:
http://svk.bestpractical.com/view/HomePage

Have fun !

Labels: berlios, bzr, cvs, darcs, forge, fossil, free, git, hg, mercurial, open source, public host, snv, source code, sourceforge