SVK

SVK (also written svk) is a decentralized version control system written in Perl, with a hierarchical distributed design comparable to centralized deployment of BitKeeper and GNU arch. The primary author of svk is Chia-liang Kao (Chinese: 高嘉良). Like Perl, it is distributed under the Artistic License and the GNU General Public License, making svk free software.

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 [http://use.perl.org/~jesse/journal/29812] [http://bestpractical.com/news/svk.html] .

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

* [http://svk.bestpractical.com/ SVK Homepage]
* [http://bestpractical.com/ Best Practical]
* [http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2004/03/03/svk.html Perl.com article on SVK]
* [http://www.bieberlabs.com/wordpress/svk-tutorials SVK Tutorials]

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