Version Control Cheat Sheets

The Mutant Dinosaurs

Subversion

Subversion tries to replace CVS by implementing the concepts behind CVS correctly. As if that would help... Other cheat sheets like documents that don't fit on a sheet of paper:

• Subversion Cheat Sheet by Abbey Workshop

SVK

SVK tries to use subversion to overcome the limitations of cvs by putting a distribution layer on top of it, so you can for example have a local history of your changes to a project that uses SVN . Other cheat sheet like documents that don't fit on a sheet of paper:

• SVK Usage from the SVK Wiki
• SVK primer for subversion users

The Big Three

Three systems will probably be dominating the distributed VCS space, each having at least on important free software project as a prominent user: mercurial, bzr and git, all of which can do almost everything most projects might need.

mercurial

Mercurial has seen an important uptake by SUN and in the Java environment in late 2007.

GIT

git is of course the VCS of the linux kernel. Other cheat sheet like documents that don't fit on a sheet of paper:

• There are more than enough links on the GIT Wiki Links page

bazaar or bzr

bazaar or bzr (formerly bazaar-ng) is most famous as the VCS of Ubuntu Linux. Other cheat sheet like documents that don't fit on a sheet of paper:

• a shot command list

The contenders

The contenders like darcs and monotone follow when I find the time. I made this page for a reason, that was ... wait a moment ... oh yes, I wanted a link to a cheat sheet for a VCS I don't want to use to acces the reporitory of I project I want to look at. And neiter darcs nor monotone are in that category.