I've decided to play with Google Code a bit, to host some miscellaneous code from boodebr.org.

Up to this point in my programming life, the only version control systems I've used have been darcs and mercurial, which are both distributed systems. The concept of having to use svn to access Google Code really made me cringe.

Fortunately, there is nice tool called {{tt{svk}}} which makes a standard svn server look very much like a distributed system. I wrote a little walk-through to demonstrate the basics of using svk with Google Code.

Read it here: Google Code: Getting started with svk