Offline Version Control Systems

I wrote this blog post offline while travelling up to Manchester on the train, I have a 3G card but it doesn't seem to handle high speed trains that well. Also the tracks are neatly tucked within some valleys that probably don't do too much for the signal.

Back to the topic at hand, before I left I did a cvs update for php-src/ext but forgot to do the Zend folder, so at the moment I’m stuck with a non-compiling PHP 6. This has killed most of the productivity I had planned for the train, all my own fault so I don’t mind.

However what I find annoying is the fact that I need the CVS server to do a diff to check my patch and reverting to previous revision? No change without the CVS server.

Solutions?

Well I can’t fix the first issue without an internet connection, I should just make sure I try a build before I left the house, the second though can probably be fixed by using one of the other version control systems out there. Be it Subversion, Mercurial or bzr.

I personally would be happy with Subversion as I can always see a need for some sort of central repository for PHP rather than a distributed system. All the systems we have that rely on CVS would be potentially easier to translate than to bzr.

Gwynne recently took a 2.5GB tarball of the PHP CVS repository and is looking into converting this to Subversion, the recent release of version 1.5 makes it viable with the new merge tracking system but this may be a dead end if she can’t get it converted.
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Comments

[Pierre]

I recommend Git for an offline VCR.

[Johannes]

I have a git tree of the PHP CVS at http://git.chinstrap.eu the funny thing about that is that it gives you the full history of php-src,ZE2+TSRM taking less space on your disk than a svn checkout of the current version. You can then do local commits while travellign around and then merge them into the main tree. Really great.

Unfortunately it broke when merging phar into php-src as the import script got confused about the creation time of some tags and I recently didn'T have the time to look into it and fix that

[Trophaeum]

Whilst I havn't converted any codebases in a LONG time as far as VCS's go, monotone is my pick of the little there days, look into it a bit, it definantly doesn't have the fanboi userbase that git has but once you get used to it it's amazingly powerful and easy to use.

[Simon Schmitt]

For exactly the same problem I am now using GIT. I love SVN, but GIT is my friend for offline communication with SVN. Give it a try - you'll love it.

[Stuart Herbert]

It isn't the 3G card's fault that the train design ends up blocking the radio signal :(

I couldn't help but notice that you've called this blog posting "offline version control systems" ... I wouldn't count Subversion as an offline version control system. Sure, you can diff your changes against the checked out revision, but you can't commit your changes at all. That can be a real pain :(

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I was mainly looking to revert the changes I had accidentally made.

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