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

Chris McGrath
Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:31:56 -0000

On 20 Apr 2006, at 11:53, David Mitchell wrote:

> There''s nothing stopping you using Darcs if that''s what
you really
> want to use.
>
> However, as you''ve noticed the "standard" is Subversion.
RadRails
> supports it; Capistrano requires it (as far as I''m aware), and is
> magic for deployment.

[1] Is an interesting read.

I tend to use darcs for personal projects and svn where I have to.
I''ve used Capistrano just fine [2] & [3] with either and TextMate
has
bundles for Subversion and Darcs (though I tend to use the command
line anyway).

I don''t see any reason not to use whichever one you want as
appropriate, heck I''ve even heard of people using darcs locally on a
project that used svn by setting up the appropriate boringfile /
svn:ignore properties and being careful about how they did their
commits.

Chris

[1] http://blog.caboo.se/articles/2006/01/27/darcs-for-rails-users
[2] http://blog.caboo.se/articles/2006/02/03/darcs-and-switchtower-
not-working
[3] http://blog.caboo.se/articles/2006/02/21/darcs-and-switchtower-
not-co-operating-part-2