version control : Java Glossary

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version control

Version control software, sometimes called SCM (Source Code Management), helps you manage a software project.

It provides a common repository that stores the code to be shared.
It deals with merging changes two people made to the same piece of software.
It records changes made to the software so you can track who changed what.
It lets you back out changes to any point in time in case you have trouble with newly written code.

The granddaddy of these schemes was called PVCS, Polytron Version Control System. It was extraordinarily difficult to use. CVS with the WincVS GUI was much simpler. Subversion came along to solve the problems of:

tracking file and directory renames.
ensuring stores to the respository are treated atomically.

BitKeeper is yet another advance.

Arch
Arx (a schism from Arch)
atomic
Bazaar: distributed for Ubuntu
beautifier
BitKeeper
collaboration
Comparision of Version Control systems
Comparisons of different Version control Systems
CVS
cvsplot/cvsstat
distributing Java source
GIT: Linux version control
GNU RCS: Revision Control System, open source
IBM Rational ClearCase expensive and complicated
jCVS
Karl Fogel’s book on CVS
Mercurial: distributed version control for large teams
Meta CVS
Perforce
SmartCVS
Star Team
Stellation
Subversion
TLIB
Tortoise CVS (Windows client for CVS)
Tortoise Subversion (Windows client for Subversion)
version control feature comparison
viewcvs
VSS: Microsoft Visual Source Safe
WinCVS

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