vcs

Version control system (VCS) is a method of tracking and distributing file changes over a computer and network. Tags: https://forums.freebsd.org/tags/vcs/ VCS use on FreeBSD until 2006, from BSDCan 2006 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ffe4/f04baa628c8eca4897b3f345ce3cb8cba96b.pdf I remember...

Does anyone use any sort of version control for maintaining scripts or configuration files such as /etc/rc.conf or /etc/fstab etc.? Any recommendations?

I have had my dotfiles in git version control for a while now, sometimes I find git annoying when I want to experiment with things, it is sort of a barrier to that, and I find that when my dotfiles are in any kind of version control system, I have an urge to constantly commit any small changes I...

I'm not sure if I did talk about that already earlier, search doesn't find a thing (but my search-fu isn't currently well developed, anyway). With our code development, we have version control systems like SVN or GIT. They record all changes to a codebase, and provide us with the ability to (at...

Hello. I posted this thread because I want some advice about version control system. Subversion, CVS, Perforce, and Git. Which one is the fastest and what are the advantages and disadvantages of each one? I can use Perforce and Git and I heard that there was a FreeBSD repository for Perforce...

It seems like an obvious way to do this is just to set up a git repo at the base of /etc directory. But, I am not sure if I just had a great idea or a terrible one with implications that I just hadn't figured yet. Is there any reason why this might a bad idea? What is the standard practice?

ranger is a console file manager with VI key bindings ranger file manager you can set ranger to be aware of version control systems like git and show information about the state of the git repo however this has the unwanted side effect of causing ranger to hang for a couple of seconds when you...

So far I have always used CVS for my personal projects, but FreeBSD's recent switch to Subversion is perhaps a good incentive to reevaluate, or at least to see what else is out there. So, which do you prefer and why: CVS, Bazaar, SVN, Git, Mercurial, or perhaps something completely different? In...