# BEGIN BPS TAGGED BLOCK {{{ # COPYRIGHT: # # This software is Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Best Practical Solutions, LLC # # # (Except where explicitly superseded by other copyright notices) # # # LICENSE: # # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or # modify it under the terms of either: # # a) Version 2 of the GNU General Public License. You should have # received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this # program. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 # Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 or visit # their web page on the internet at # http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. # # b) Version 1 of Perl's "Artistic License". You should have received # a copy of the Artistic License with this package, in the file # named "ARTISTIC". The license is also available at # http://opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license.php. # # This work is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # General Public License for more details. # # CONTRIBUTION SUBMISSION POLICY: # # (The following paragraph is not intended to limit the rights granted # to you to modify and distribute this software under the terms of the # GNU General Public License and is only of importance to you if you # choose to contribute your changes and enhancements to the community # by submitting them to Best Practical Solutions, LLC.) # # By intentionally submitting any modifications, corrections or # derivatives to this work, or any other work intended for use with SVK, # to Best Practical Solutions, LLC, you confirm that you are the # copyright holder for those contributions and you grant Best Practical # Solutions, LLC a nonexclusive, worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free, # perpetual, license to use, copy, create derivative works based on # those contributions, and sublicense and distribute those contributions # and any derivatives thereof. # # END BPS TAGGED BLOCK }}} This is the README file for SVK, a decentralized version control system. The latest version could be found at http://svn.bestpractical.com/svk/trunk You need Module::Install if you are not installing from release tarballs. * About While Subversion aims to take over the CVS user base, SVK attempts to take over the others -- including people who are already using other SCM systems, and people who had not started using SCM. SVK is written in Perl, using Subversion's underlying 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". For more information, please visit the web site at http://svk.bestpractical.com/. * Installation To use SVK, you need Subversion version 1.0.4 or higher, compiled with Perl bindings support. SVK uses the standard perl module install process: % perl Makefile.PL % make # make install * Usage You may want to start with the SVK tutorial, available on the web site.