SVK

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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 Chia-liang Kao (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] [2].

Contents 1 Features 2 See also 3 External links 4 References

[edit] Features

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] See also

• List of revision control software
• Comparison of revision control software
• Subversion
• GNU arch, the source of inspiration for svk's star-merge feature
• Bazaar, another open-source distributed SCM tool
• Git, another open-source distributed SCM tool
• Monotone, another open-source distributed SCM tool
• Mercurial, another open-source distributed SCM tool

[edit] External links

• SVK Homepage
• Best Practical
• Perl.com article on SVK
• SVK Tutorials

[edit] References