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BitBucket

BitBucket is providing mercurial hosting:

Bitbucket is a place for you and your team to host and follow your Mercurial projects. Mercurial is a so-called DVCS, or Distributed Version Control System, a new paradigm in version control, rapidly substituting the likes of Subversion and CVS. We have plans for several purposes, […]

Cornerstone

Previewing at 1.0, Cornerstone, a GUI Subversion front end has been released.

Daring Fireball, as ever, with the wry commentary:

It strikes me as an odd coincidence that two serious Subversion clients would debut at a time when many developers are starting to switch away from Subversion to distributed revision control systems such as Git […]

Getting Git

While I have been a happy subversion user, there are some areas that are a continual source of frustration. No commits offline. Limited merging facilities. (See my earlier post.) The limitations on merging is the serious issue for me. Prose production presents opportunities for merging that subverion cannot handle (at least at present). Distributed version […]

The Problem with Merging

Subversion, a free and open source version control system, is great for keep track of the development of your LaTeX documents. As cool as it is, though, it has its limitations. One serious limitation is branch management.

Suppose you have a document that you are writing and that you are considering restructuring that document. Suppose, further, […]

Parting Observation

The current series of posts about subversion:

Subversion Subversion, Serendipity, and Discipline Subversion and the Single User LaTeX and Subversion Circle Six Subversion Subverting Difference Subversion and TextMate

have ended, but I wanted to make one last observation. For authors producing complex documents whose development they need to track, what’s important is version control, not necessarily subversion. There are a variety of version […]

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