Versioning Software?

Started by Demitrius, December 04, 2008, 06:27:39 PM

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What's your favorite versioning software and why? 

Are there any similar to Visual SourceSafe that don't cost a fortune and don't suck ass?

Thanks.

Only windows scm repo I've used is perforce -- it was just ok.

on linux i've used cvs, svn and git, and i think subversion is the most "user friendly" I've seen to date.

Quote from: Demitrius on December 04, 2008, 06:27:39 PM
What's your favorite versioning software and why? 

Are there any similar to Visual SourceSafe that don't cost a fortune and don't suck ass?

Thanks.
I've used CVS, SGV, and TFS, in that order, and I rank them in that order as well based off of my experiences with them.  Our company switched from SGV to TFS about a year ago and it was a step down as far as I'm concerned.  I believe TFS wouldn't be so bad if our TFS admin wasn't trying to force everyone at our company to use every square inch of that monstrous system and causing it to go down every week.

The only downside to CVS was it didn't integrate with VS2005 or VS2008 at the time, and I still haven't seen any completed or polished plugins for it yet.  SGV and TFS have slick plugins that allow me to do a lot of source control stuff from within the IDE w/ easy to follow visual cues and pop up menus.

I use CVS for my own development here at home and I'd recommend it to small shops or startups.


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