Introduction

Why did I decide to write an article today about Git and Mercurial?

Just because a customer I work for (a big space company) has decided to migrate from Clearcase to Git for new projects. So I was very interested in Git and my feeling for GIT is very ambivalent: This tool is both awesome and awful!

ApVSys is an Open Source project started in 2001 and driven by Abalgo since 2005.

This is a general wrapper designed for Unix / Linux engineering environments. It provides a way to simultaneously use and manage different versions of applications (engineering tools, compilers, simulators, debugging tools, ...).

It is a very light tool, very effective and not intrusive at all.