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Revision Control

  • 11-04-2007 7:24pm
    #1
    Red Alert
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering does anyone here use a revision control system (like CVS, Subversion etc) in their research work?

    I'm synchronizing files between 3 pc's using a thing called Unison, but for all the effort it is might a CVS/Subversion type thing be better? I had toyed with the idea before, and have used subversion for maintaining the source files in my final year project. Would it be overkill for putting my whole research folder in it i wonder?


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  • #2
    deRanged
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,744 ✭✭✭deRanged


    Subversion all the way.
    I work on a few different machines (home/office) so keeping track of changes is important.
    The server is backed up too, which is nice.

    I keep all my publications and my thesis in it.


  • #3
    NextSteps
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 984 ✭✭✭NextSteps


    This sounds good as I'm always afraid of overwriting the wrong version of the thing. I saw an article in the paper on Monday about a PhD student who lost 3 years' work when her house was burgled and 3 computers and a USB key were stolen, so now I'm even more paranoid than I was about creating backups everywhere! It made me feel sick just thinking about it.

    Is Subversion relatively foolproof?


  • #4
    Red Alert
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 7,486 ✭✭✭Red Alert


    It is if you use the FSFS backend (the other option is Berkeley DB), but the repository itself should be backed up too. (My own server at home takes a snapshot of it on a separate hard disk and mirrors the backup to a server in UCD).

    Also you're unlikely to ever totally lose your work in one go. The worst that could happen is that your repository gets taken out in one go, leaving you with one or more of your most recent working copies.

    Subversion can run client/server like I have or you can do everything locally if you like. For what it's worth, I've put a lot of my stuff now into it since posting the topic and it's been going good.

    There's also a thing I found called SVK that definitely runs on Mac OS X and Linux. It's like a mirror of the SVN repository you can keep on something like a laptop and work/commit disconnected and do a batch upload of.


  • #5
    nuada
    Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭nuada


    Give mercurial a go, if your not always connected to the internet.
    It's a very lightweight, robust, distributed RCS. Written in python I think


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