SVK is a great source control and versioning solution. I particularly like the idea of having local access to an entire respository while still having the safety of an off-site upstream server.
As its written entirely in PERL, SVK is fairly portable (but there’s a "but" coming), but (ah, yes … there it is) while it works flawlessly on my Gentoo system, I’ve had problems getting it to work on Windows. Win32 binaries are available, but they rely on plink for svn+ssh, and I’ve not been able to get the combination to work. I elected instead to run the standard CPAN distribution of SVK under Cygwin. This, of course, brought its own set of problems.
I’ve posted a wiki article that outlines the steps that I followed to get SVK running under Cygwin.
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