Yeah, Porting Centre++

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

As of today, Richard uploaded git to the porting center!

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Development/Tools/git-1.5.3.8/

Git is a very modern super-fast Version Control System, comparable to the bigger and slower Subversion.
Both are not easy to build from scratch yourself (I tried, and gave up on subversion after way to many hours of cursing, and succeeded with git).

"A lot of dependencies listed (though I'm not convinced you need them all!)"

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn [ who switched to git from SCCS on HP-UX 11.00 ]

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Merijn:

Ah, the README is definitely worth the read!

Regards!

...JRF...

[Geoff Wild]

Interesting - but what's wrong with using rcs?

It's built into HPUX so nothing to compile...

RCS is a set of utilities which will allow you to backup and retrieve
versions of a file, as well as share them with others without clobbering
each others' work. This accomplished by "surrendering" your files to
the RCS system, and then asking RCS to get them for you whenever you want them. RCS is a little like using the public library: to "borrow"
a file, you "check it out"; when you are done with it you "check it in".
Using RCS is very easy -- you only need to learn 2 commands, and only
one option!

BTW - I find the readme somewhat offensive...I know he was trying to be funny...but...I don't think his comments are necessary...2 thumbs down from me...

Rgds...Geoff

[H.Merijn Brand (procura]

RCS and SCCS are perfectly fit to do what you describe, but neither can deal very well with binary files, and both are not giving a lot of insight in history.
Neither do these somewhat older systems allow for distributed repositories, which is a blessing for backup's sake, overview, and teamwork.

The *new* systems, subversion, mercurial, bazaar, and git all have a way more modern approach and show the evolution of version control. They all come with what the modern programmer expects: a slick graphical user interface. The GUI is not as slick as p4v, the GUI of perforce, but perforce is expensive, and the 4 I just mentioned are open source.

What is probably more important, is that git invites to do more and more structural commits. Where RCS and SCCS allow to commit multiple files at once, they still effectively commit on a file-by-file basis. git and co all commit as a group, and browsing back through the commits will show the files of a change, which turns out to be very useful.

OK, for RCS and SCCS you can write scripts that analyze the files and generate a semi-structured historical view. In fact, in our process of this conversion, I wrote the perl module VCS::SCCS, which comes with a sccs2git utility that seamlessly converts a SCCS repository to a git repostitory, so you can see how well it fits you.

So, 2 point for the comment as such :)

BTW I asked Richard if git was a possible option to put on the Porting Center, and he gave a good reasoning for not doing so. After that, I forwarded those reasons to the git developers, and in a short but very effective conversation that followed, Richard, the developers, with my info from my own port, made Richard do the port on his own accord anyway! Many kudo's!

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn