SVK

'SVK' (also written 'svk') is a decentralized version control system written in Perl, with a design comparable to BitKeeper and GNU arch. The primary author of svk is Chia-liang Kao (Chinese: 高嘉良), and it is distributed under Perl's Artistic License as well as GPL.
On June 5, 2006, Chia-liang Kao joined Best Practical, makers of Request Tracker (and also heavy users of SVK), and SVK became a Best Practical product [1] [2].

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Features

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External links

Features

SVK uses the Subversion filesystem but provides additional features:

★ Offline operations like ''checkin'', ''log'', ''merge''.

★ Distributed branches.

★ Lightweight checkout copy management (no ''.svn'' directories).

★ Advanced merge algorithms, like ''star-merge'' and ''cherry picking''.

★ Changeset signing and verification.

★ Can mirror and operate on Subversion, Perforce and CVS repositories.

See also

★ List of revision control software

★ Comparison of revision control software

★ Subversion

★ GNU arch, the source of inspiration for svk's star-merge feature

★ Bazaar, another open-source distributed SCM tool

★ Git, another open-source distributed SCM tool

★ Monotone, another open-source distributed SCM tool

★ Mercurial, another open-source distributed SCM tool

External links

★ SVK Homepage

★ Best Practical

★ Perl.com article on SVK

★ SVK Tutorials