I’ve just posted up an initial revision of my source and configuration management mini-book. I wrote it as a reaction to the questions I get from a lot of students. I aslo wrote it in four hours…so be kind. It’s rough, likely to contain mistakes and has no references currently. It does, however, take a different approach to most howto’s or guides. It goes into more depth on why you might want to use SCM and it give examples using two different SCM tools.
The web URL is http://foss.it.brighton.ac.uk/notes/SoftwareArchitectures/scm.html and the bazaar (bzr) repository is at http://foss.it.brighton.ac.uk/~balor/bzr/SourceAndConfigurationManagement/ patches and suggestions will be gladly accepted.
Good job, I think it’d be easier for students to follow, if you did covered one tool, in full, from start to finish.
Someone reading your guide doesn’t want to learn 2 systems in parallel, so I think having one guide and then an alternative as an additional section would work better.
Good start, go with svn I say as they will prob. work with a centralised vcs rather than a distrabuted one like bzr.
Also please foucus heavly on tagging and developer branching and mearging.
If you are goign to teach them svn, please foucs on propedit and propget also, esp. svn:externals they rock my world on a daily basis.