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

Alder Green
Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:08:31 -0000

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.

Regards,
Alder