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Re: [AVR-Chat] Source Control/Version Control for AVR projects

2011-10-25 by Matthew Metzger

That's pretty much it. I only distinguished Mac because it seems some people
just think of it as a pretty GUI. And per Dennis' interest in a client, I
have an SVN client on my laptop but the name escapes me, and it's in a bag
right now and I am too tired or lazy to open it up. I will get it out
tomorrow though and follow up.

On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Brian Dean <brian@bdmicro.com> wrote:

> **
>
>
> I'm an old Unix command line guy myself so I'm right at home on my Mac
> using CVS from an xterm - isn't a Mac really just Unix that supports iTunes.
> :-)
>
>
> -Brian
> --
> Brian Dean
> BDMICRO LLC
> http://www.bdmicro.com/
>
>
> On Oct 25, 2011, at 1:23 AM, Dennis Clark wrote:
>
> > I'm a Subversion fan myself and use it at home and at my day job. I have
> to admit that choosing between SVN and CVS is a bit like the "tastes
> great"/"less filling" beer commercial. :-)
> >
> > Now, if I could just find something as good as TortoiseSVN for the Mac
> I'd be in heaven...
> >
> > DLC
> >
> > On 10/24/11 10:44 PM, Brian Dean wrote:
> >> Hi Chuck,
> >>
> >> We've been very happy with good old CVS. All of our AVR development
> projects, among many others, are under CVS control. We do frequent backups
> of the repository, and the repo is composed of a simple directory structure
> of flat files so it is easy to do a complete backup to a thumb drive to
> carry with you for a little extra peace of mind.
> >>
> >> It may not be the glitzyest thing out there, but it works well and is
> easy enough to use.
> >>
> >> Give subversion a look as well, it's a bit more modern, but CVS works
> fine for us and make remote/shared development easy if/when you decide you
> need to support that.
> >>
> >> -Brian
> >
> > --
> > Dennis Clark
> > TTT Enterprises
> >
>
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>


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