ruby multi varsion control with pik


pik is a multi version control tool, which can be used in windows. When the time I wrote this article, pik on github says No longer maintained but I prefer to use pik on windows.

Pitfall

Tested on Windows 7 32bit.

Execute msi installer and install it to windows, but you can’t use pik. Some modification are required.

First, get new installer pik-0.3.0.pre.msi, which is the newest on writing this article, from the page of installer, and execute it.

It is installed into C:\pik as default. Then, open C:\pik\pik.bat and change %HOME% to %USERPROFILE% on 7th line.

In Windows, environmental variable %HOME% is not defined. %USERPROFILE% works well. It’s the same on Windows 8.1.