New to Versioning - Need help selecting

Hi-

I'm new to versioning and am trying to choose a package to use for Java
development at a USGS branch. We use the JDeveloper IDE for
development, which has built-in extensions for CVS and Oracle's SCM.

It seems clear that there are shortcomings in CVS. It also seems that
Oracle is not recommending it's own SCM for JDeveloper. So, I'm
looking...

Subversion sounds great, but without a plugin for the IDE usage seems
impracticle. Correct me if I'm wrong, but would Subversion require me
to do an svn add/delete/move/copy for *every* file that I need to do
this type of operation to? In the process of developing a web
application, I can easily add/delete/move/copy 20-30 files a day! Is
there any way to check out a copy, add/delete/move files via
non-subversive methods, then have those changes ripple up to the
repository?

Thanks in Advance,

Eric Everman
USGS
Received on Fri May 21 00:47:34 2004