On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 1:12 PM, William "Chops" Westfield wrote: > I'm not terribly happy about having to use so many different tools > just to look at open source source, either. =A0Sigh. Under Linux (and maybe Mac), it is not that difficult. If you just need to look at the source (like me), then it is not that bad either. > I've now used rcs, cvs, clearcase, acme (which might be entirely > internal), svn, git, and mercurial. =A0rcs is the only one I really feel > like I understood to any degree; for the rest I just follow > instructions... > The common open source tools (cvs, svn, git) are pretty easy to set up under Cygwin (for Windows). There are native Windows port as well but I always feel that the Cygwin port is easier to use and less problematic. For example, Cygwin git seems to be more stable than MSysGit/TortoiseGit. On the other hand, since I do not really doing any real software development, I only use them to check out source codes (and occasionally generate a simple patch), so I only need to know a few commands. --=20 Xiaofan --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .