lightweight/portable VCS for server-hopping DBA?
- by Aaron
I'm looking for a VCS that'll help me keep all of my work scripts in-sync.
Requirements:
Portable (as in flash drive, not code-level)
Run on Windows XP and Server 2003+
No installation dependencies (Cygwin, perl, Python)
I use Mercurial on my work machine for version control of the various T-SQL, ksh, perl, and CMD/BAT scripts that I maintain as a MS SQL Server DBA and Unix sysadmin. So far, hg has worked for my AIX boxes- I mount my home directory as I login, and deal with the repo as if it were local.
I haven't been able to find a similar solution for the Windows machines I use. Most of them I do not have Local Admin rights; even if I did, I'd rather not install (and maintain) Python + Mercurial on all of them. I can't get to my home directory on them remotely, which leaves a client running on each machine as the only option.
Bonus points for an answer that would let me use a single repo for both the Windows and Unix machines. :)
I'm running WinXP, with heavy use of Cygwin and a CrunchBang VM.