XSteve's Emacs DVC.el page

About DVC.el (distributed version control)

DVC.el is a unified emacs interface for a bunch of distributed revision control systems

DVC.el supports GNU Arch (tla) and Bazaar (baz)
Mercurial is usable
Bzr is usable
Monotone is usable
Git support is started and somewhat usable
Darcs support is started but not yet usable

Since June 2006 DVC.el is distributed via bzr. You can get it via bzr:

# bzr get http://bzr.xsteve.at/dvc

DVC.el is already in a very stable and usable state. I use it daily for GNU Arch (tla) and Mercurial (hg).
It provides also good support for bzr, monotone and git.
I think that the number of users will increase, as soon as the new distributed revision control systems will get a larger user base.

DVC.el mailing list

There is a mailing list for DVC.el related stuff:

Subscribe via: https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/dvc-dev/
The Gmane mirror is here: http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.dvc.devel

You can also contact me directly per email (stefan at xsteve dot at) if you have feature requests or bug reports, or when you like my software ;-)

DVC.el developer homepage

The developer homepage is maintained by all developers and can be found here.

Various info pages for DVC.el

Stephen Leake's DVC intro
Alex Ott's Using DVC with Emacs
Richard Riley's DVC git introduction

How I use dvc with mercurial to synchronize my personal knowledge base via email

I use emacs-muse to keep a personal knowledge base. This setup makes it easy to record links to various ressources on my computer or on the internet.
I like to keep that knowledge base synchronized at work and at home
I don't want to put that stuff in on a public available server
So I use email to synchronize the two computers
I put the knowledge base under Mercurial control and send changes via email
I commit the changes to the mercurial repository
Then I run M-x xhg-logs
Now press E RETURN
I get a message buffer prepared for sending via email, I just hit C-c C-c to send the patch
On the other computer I receive the mail via gnus
Then I hit K t a to import the patch to my knowledge base

That's it ;-)
More descriptions will be added soon...

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Last modified: Sat Aug 15 22:26:27 CEST 2009