SVK
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For the country, see Slovakia.
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 Kao Chia-liang (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.[1]
On May 28, 2009, Chia-liang Kao announced that Best Practical will no longer be actively developing SVK.[2]
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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.
[edit] References
- ^ Best Practical (June 5, 2006). Best Practical Solutions Announces SVK Acquisition - Total World Domination Plan Proceeding Apace. Press release. http://bestpractical.com/news/svk.html. Retrieved on 2009-04-21.
- ^ "The Future of SVK". May 28, 2009. http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/svk-devel/2009-May/001224.html. Retrieved on June 6, 2009.
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