Posts tagged vcs

fossil experiments

For a variety of reasons we can no longer use GitHub at work for any project which isn’t Open Source. And since that decision was thrust upon us we’ve been playing with some alternatives for our workflow. We’ll probably end up choosing one of the self hosted clones at some point, but it was decided early on that we should evaluate a variety of options.

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Zsh and the VCS

I’ve recently switched to Zsh as my login shell after 9 years of using bash, and for no particularly good reason either as they’re both great interactive shells. I guess all the Kool Kids are doing it, and I’m just playing catchup. The one side effect of that is I’m now scribbling tips about zsh too…

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Making a nice home

Back in Kick_me_birthday_reminders I said:

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Introduction to RCS

I’ve resurrected this text from my old UKFSN site because a couple of people asked me to, but I wouldn’t recommend using RCS to anyone at this point. It is mainly to help people who need to understand RCS because they have no choice, for example Gentoo users who are stuck with dispatch-conf (or so my mails tell me).

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