SRC 1.0 is released

If you were reading A&D a year ago, you may recall that I invented a new version-control system to occupy an odd little niche that none of the exiting ones serve very well.

Well, actually, it’s a shell around a very old version-control system that makes a reasonable fast version-storage manager but has a crappy UI. Thus, SRC – RCS reloaded, with a mission to serve cases where you don’t want per-directory changesets but prefer each file to have its own separate change history. Like a directory full of separate FAQs, or your ~/bin full of little scripts.

SRC gives you a modern UI in the svn/hg/git style (but much, much simpler than git’s) and lockless operation. It has full embedded documentation and an Emacs VC backend. If your little project goes multi-file, you can instantly fast-export to git.

Today I shipped Version 1.0″. This could have happened sooner, but I’ve been focusing on NTPsec pretty hard in the last year. There was one odd bug in the behavior of multi-file commands that I just hadn’t got around to fixing. (Yes, you can do multi-file commands, but the files still have separate histories.)

The whole thing is just 2KLOC of Python, and that’s with the rather extensive embedded documentation. The sort of person who frequents this blog might find the FAQ entertaining.