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

Alder Green
Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:15:07 -0000

On 4/20/06, Chris McGrath <chris@octopod.info>
wrote:
> (...)
> [1] Is an interesting read.
> (...)
> [1] http://blog.caboo.se/articles/2006/01/27/darcs-for-rails-users

Yes, it is. It''s also the only text I manged to find about using Darcs
with Rails. There are a few others, discussing deployment issues with
Darcs compared to smoother operation with SVN. So not very
encouraging.

The Rails wiki has several detailed treatments of SVN Rails
development and deployment. Many other texts exist, some going into
quite a bit of detail, like for example [1].

With so little information available online (and afai could determine:
also offline), I had to try to get a sense of how many developers
actually use Darcs to manage their Rails code, and a rough estimate of
the overhead it incurs compared to the better-supported SVN, assuming
I don''t use RadRails and probably won''t need SwitchTower or
Capistrano.

-Alder

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