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Poll: Which version control system should we use?

3 points by robg 18y ago

It's time for our teeny team to start using something to manage versions and we need to decide which. Help?

qhoxie 18y ago
I use both git and svn. Git for open source projects and projects I personally control. Subversion for a number of projects that are linked to things like trac and other encompassing systems that the teams do not wish to change.
bkbleikamp 18y ago
I used subversion until about 2 weeks ago when I started work at a new company and now use Git. Git is much more powerful, in my opinion - branching is incredibly easy to work on experimental code.
- makecheck 18y ago
  Branching is pretty easy in Subversion as long as you're using 1.5.x.
  - mhartl 18y ago
    Yeah, it's really merging that's a pain in Subversion. Easy merging has been the biggest win for me with Git.
johnm 18y ago
Mercurial
- shard 18y ago
  I use SVN at work, but for my own projects I use Mercurial because I was already familiar with TortiseSVN, and I was able to start using Mercurial right away with TortiseHG.
lief79 18y ago
Currently SVN. Previously CVS, ClearCase, and RCS. (Over the past 4 years, in reverse order.) I was trying to encourage the use of SVN and the first place, but did not have the clout and systems access to change it. Between the 4, SVN is a clear winner, although Eclipse still has slightly better CVS support.
lief79 18y ago
You probably want to rephrase this as what version control system do you use that we should use. As my other post shows, it's quite possible that people responding will be skewing the data because they only know of these products ... and they might not be recommending it as opposed to being stuck with it.
- robg 18y ago
  Great point. Fixed (but hopefully doesn't change the results too much). I easily forget that many are forced to use tools they'd prefer not to.
qhoxie 18y ago
I can advocate for Git on a number of levels. Certainly there is reason to evangelize the distributed architecture, but it also has merits for a many other reasons like amazing speed, features, and the like. I am sure that I haven't even scratched the surface yet, but I constantly find git features that make me never want to return to svn. All that said, I have no experience with mercurial or bazaar, both of which are of similar designs to git.
thwarted 18y ago
It's time to start using something _now_? The time to start using source/version control is before you start. It doesn't matter which, just pick one. Other than getting used to the command interface, it should be pretty easy to migrate to a different one, either by doing a total conversion porting all the history over, or if that's not possible (which it may not be if you go with a distributed system and you want to move to a centralized setup) then just keeping the old one around as reference and just start doing all new work in the new one.

3 points by robg 18y ago

It's time for our teeny team to start using something to manage versions and we need to decide which. Help?

I use both git and svn. Git for open source projects and projects I personally control. Subversion for a number of projects that are linked to things like trac and other encompassing systems that the teams do not wish to change.

bkbleikamp 18y ago

I used subversion until about 2 weeks ago when I started work at a new company and now use Git. Git is much more powerful, in my opinion - branching is incredibly easy to work on experimental code.

makecheck 18y ago
Branching is pretty easy in Subversion as long as you're using 1.5.x.
- mhartl 18y ago
  Yeah, it's really merging that's a pain in Subversion. Easy merging has been the biggest win for me with Git.

johnm 18y ago

Mercurial

shard 18y ago
I use SVN at work, but for my own projects I use Mercurial because I was already familiar with TortiseSVN, and I was able to start using Mercurial right away with TortiseHG.

lief79 18y ago

Currently SVN. Previously CVS, ClearCase, and RCS. (Over the past 4 years, in reverse order.) I was trying to encourage the use of SVN and the first place, but did not have the clout and systems access to change it. Between the 4, SVN is a clear winner, although Eclipse still has slightly better CVS support.

lief79 18y ago

You probably want to rephrase this as what version control system do you use that we should use. As my other post shows, it's quite possible that people responding will be skewing the data because they only know of these products ... and they might not be recommending it as opposed to being stuck with it.

robg 18y ago
Great point. Fixed (but hopefully doesn't change the results too much). I easily forget that many are forced to use tools they'd prefer not to.

qhoxie 18y ago

I can advocate for Git on a number of levels. Certainly there is reason to evangelize the distributed architecture, but it also has merits for a many other reasons like amazing speed, features, and the like. I am sure that I haven't even scratched the surface yet, but I constantly find git features that make me never want to return to svn. All that said, I have no experience with mercurial or bazaar, both of which are of similar designs to git.

thwarted 18y ago

It's time to start using something _now_? The time to start using source/version control is before you start. It doesn't matter which, just pick one. Other than getting used to the command interface, it should be pretty easy to migrate to a different one, either by doing a total conversion porting all the history over, or if that's not possible (which it may not be if you go with a distributed system and you want to move to a centralized setup) then just keeping the old one around as reference and just start doing all new work in the new one.