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

Peter Szinek
Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:52:49 -0000

Peter Szinek wrote:
> 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
btw. a nice comparison:

http://migo.sixbit.org/papers/Revision_Control_Systems/all-in-one.html


HTH,
Peter