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There's Another World Outside CVS

Oct 03, 2007

If you're like most bioinformaticians, you're juggling many projects and working on many different machines, both at home and at work. How do you manage all those projects? At his blog, What You're Doing is Rather Desperate, Neil Saunders lays out the code for installing and setting up Subversion (SVN), the CVS alternative, and a project management system called Trac. It’s both informative and easy-to-follow, so if you’re up for the switch to SVN, check out his post.

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