This is the README file for SVK, a decentralized version control system. The latest version could be found at svn://svn.clkao.org/svk/trunk You need Module::Install if you are not installing from release tarballs. * About While Subversion aims to take over the CVS user base, SVK attempts to take over the others -- including people who are already using other SCM systems, and people who had not started using SCM. SVK is written in Perl, using Subversion's underlying 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". For more information, please visit the web site at http://svk.elixus.org/. * Installation To use SVK, you need Subversion version 1.0.4 or higher, compiled with Perl bindings support. SVK uses the standard perl module install process: % perl Makefile.PL % make # make install * Usage You may want to start with the SVK tutorial, available on the web site.