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The SCM you use is certainly up to you (and your organization). However, Duraspace provides source code repositories for DSpace via both Subversion^1^* and Git^2^*.

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With the development of DSpace being so closely intertwined with Maven, and my relative inexperience with CVS for Maven projects, I'm recommending against this option and can provide no real assistance. Please feel free to expand this section.

Subversion

This is a perfectly sound option though it does have some constraints on the versions of software that you may end up using.

Git

The DSpace Git repository is very new (Jan 2012) so I can't give a lot of detail at the moment. Also, I've not yet had the opportunity to setup Git on my development machines. I'll be providing more information on this option in the coming months (Feb-April 2012).located here: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace.git

Build Tools

Utilities necessary for deploying an instance of DSpace

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