[Hidden-tech] Version Control

[R. David Murray]

On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 at 09:56, Greg Major wrote:
> Do you have a local server or web server available at your place of 
> business? The state-of-the-art for software developers use is currently 
> a free product called Subversion. It has lots of support, a web and a

Subversion isn't considered state of the art anymore, although it
is definitely a fine product with lots of resources behind it.

State of the art is now "distributed version control", such as Bazaar,
Git, Mercurial, etc.  (All of which are free, BTW.)

The advantage of a DVCS (Distributed Version Control System) for a web
developer is that you don't have to set up a repository for the version
control information the way you do for Subversion.  It can all be stored
locally on your own machine, right in the directory where you are
doing the work.  Setup is almost instantaneous.

That said, I'm not sure how good the GUI clients are for any of the
DVCSes, since cutting edge software developers tend not to use GUIs as
much :)  I certainly haven't, which is why I can't comment on them.

Subversion is an excellent choice; I just wanted to qualify that "State
of the Art" statement :).

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