[Rails] SCM for a Rails project - Darcs or Subversion?

Peter Szinek
Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:50:03 -0000

Alder Green wrote:
> Hi everyone.
>
> I''m choosing an SCM for my current Rails project.
>
> Up until now, for my other (non-Rails) codings, I used Darcs and liked
> it very much. I''d prefer to use Darcs for my Rails development as
> well. Looking into the matter, I''m somewhat deterred by the
appearant
> dominance of Subversion as the SCM tool of choice for Rails hackers.
>
> Is there a technical reason for this dominance?  Should I avoid Darcs
> and instead use SVN for my Rails development? Should I expect poor
> Rais'' tools support of Darcs compared to SVN? I''ve
already noticed
> RadRails tightly integrates SVN, and the large amount of
> online/offline (the Agile book) discussing SVN with Rails, while Darcs
> + Rails only yields a single - good but short and very basic - blog
> post.
>
> That said, I found SVN itself to be an overkill and less suitable for
> my zen of development, and would like to stick to Darcs also for Rails
> if the cost isn''t too high.

An interesting discussion on this can be found here:

http://drupal.org/node/16631

HTH,
Peter