rsync and Time Machine instead of svn for small project
I *could* set up svn for code management but I'm the only developer and I decided to do something different just for the hell of it. It works for me so why not.
When I have a working version and I'm ready to move onto the next coding stage, I rsync it to my Snow Leopard machine, go to the Time Machine icon on the menu bar and hit 'Backup Now'. Then if I want to go back, I can just get the old stuff out the Time Machine.
Doesn't give me the fill gamut of what svn gives but it works for a small project like this.
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Comment by Ralph Corderoy, on 14-Feb-2010 04:08 , user id: )
One of Mercurial's main competitors is also Python; Bazaar, backed by Canonical and used heavily in producing Ubuntu. http://bazaar.canonical.com/en/
Bell Labs used to do something similar during their development of Plan 9. Their filesystem would be snapshotted once a day, novel at the time, and they'd often diff two days' source trees to see what had changed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil_%28file_system%29
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Comment by James, on 13-Feb-2010 12:47 , user id: )
Seems like a pretty hodge-podge system.
You should look at something like mercurial, one of these days I'm going to get around to replacing my very spread-out subversion repository (website development so each site gets it's own active branch) with mercurial.