Category Archives: SCM

Perforce Knowledge Base Launched

In case you missed the announcement, the Perforce Knowledge Base is now available. Click here for more information about the technology driving the site.

Perspectives on SCM

So I know this is old news by now, but Linus Torvalds gave a talk last month on git, the version management system he wrote. He spends quite a lot of time bashing other SCM systems, particularly Perforce and Subversion. He writes off CVS entirely, which is perhaps warranted, but I thought his views on [...]

PAM Authentication for Apache, Trac and SVN

I’m going to describe how to get two of my favourite development tools, Trac and Subversion, to authenticate against PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module). For those who might not be familiar, Trac is a wiki that has integrated SCM and issue tracking. It’s written in Python and it’s incredibly useful. I’ve been using Subversion for version [...]