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Originally Posted by ericand
I'm curious about experiences with the use of source code repositories (CVS, RCS, DARCS,...) and if anyone has been able to incorporate them into their teams development process.
We've tried but the use of a central repository has not worked well due to the fact that our development is on machines that are not regularly networked together. We archive the best code of the day and use it to seed a development directory for the next day's work.
What we have done that has worked fairly well, is use a contextual diff tool (KDIFF3) that provides a quick way to compare and merge two source directories. Using this tool, we can quickly see what has changed from a previous day's work, or we can merge separate development directories into one.
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SVK, it's basically a decentralized SVN. I've never actually used it, but I hear its pretty good.
I've got SVN installed on my laptop (Hint: You don't need a server to use SVN with, file:/// repositories work fine). When I get home, I run a batch script that backs up the SVN tree to my desktop, then I have another script there which copies it over to my linux SVN server, so I can use stuff like ViewCV
It also has the nice advantage of me having three seperate copies of the code, so I can't lose it.