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 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] [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.

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