subversion

[evilsee]

All I want to say it that I think SVN is freaking awesome!

 

[James]

I use SVN at work but I think GIT is better

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Also a bigg SVN fan. Cannot code without it.

Use the free hosting at xp-dev.com for my personal development.

We also use it at work but might move our stuff eventually over to GIT - not tried it yet.

 

[superfly]

Subversion is old, cranky, doesn't merge properly, and slow. I use Bazaar on my own projects, it's much better. Plus it has a Subversion bridge so that you can check out your svn repository, and then use bzr on your side for branching and merging.

 

[iblade]

Obligatory Microsoft punt, I think TFS is a better product than SVN. Not free, but awesome features, including ALM.

We have moved 2 customers away from SVN over to TFS and they love it.

 

[evilsee]

I use SVN at work but I think GIT is better

To me GIT seems to make send if you have no idea who is going to be checking out the code based and what they are going to be up to, SVN on the hand is when you know who is working on what and when. Admittedly I haven used GIT yet.

 

[Supine]

Has anyone tried mercurial and git? I am thinking of moving to a distributed system and was wondering which is the better.

 

[dequadin]

Has anyone tried mercurial and git? I am thinking of moving to a distributed system and was wondering which is the better.

+1 Thinking of doing the same. Am leaning more towards Mercurial, it's gets loads of good comments on StackOverflow and TortoiseHG is out for Windows. (I'm too old for the command line).

 

[FarligOpptreden]

(I'm too old for the command line)

That's why you should actually be using the command line! It's these young 'uns that should be using these new-fangled use 'em innerfaces...

 

[Raithlin]

+1 Thinking of doing the same. Am leaning more towards Mercurial, it's gets loads of good comments on StackOverflow and TortoiseHG is out for Windows. (I'm too old for the command line).

That makes 3 of us. Anyone use both and have a preferred solution for us oldies?

 

[icyrus]

I prefer mercurial to git without question. Git's porcelain is painful to work with.

There was a decent discussion of this on reddit a while back:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/c541s/why_i_switched_to_git_from_mercurial/c0q6hw2

 

[dequadin]

Joel Spolsky has a nice Mercurial Tutorial/Introduction

Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial

 

[RSkeens]

I also use SVN but don't also mind GIT either. I use SVN more.

 

[CorneN]

Been using SVN + Ankh pluggin for VS2008 and Tortoise for about two weeks on a personal project with some mates abroad. Really loving it!

 

[Raithlin]

Joel Spolsky has a nice Mercurial Tutorial/Introduction

Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial

Excellent tutorial. Any idea where I can get a Mercurial server setup for dev at home? perhaps a free online host? (I checked and found a few, but I'm looking for experienced advice here)

 

[dequadin]

Excellent tutorial. Any idea where I can get a Mercurial server setup for dev at home? perhaps a free online host? (I checked and found a few, but I'm looking for experienced advice here)

Maybe try TortoiseHG, I've downloaded it haven't played around with it yet. I think it can create local repositories for you.

TortoiseSVN is brilliant, so hopefully they've done an equally good job with this one.

 

[Raithlin]

Thanks, dequadin. For the record, I found VS2005/08/10 addons, Eclipse addons - and NetBeans has out-of-the-box support for Mercurial! Now I'm looking for a Komodo extension.

 

[icyrus]

Excellent tutorial. Any idea where I can get a Mercurial server setup for dev at home? perhaps a free online host? (I checked and found a few, but I'm looking for experienced advice here)

http://bitbucket.org/
http://sf.net
http://code.google.com/projecthosting/

 

[evilsee]

Joel Spolsky has a nice Mercurial Tutorial/Introduction

Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial

nice write up, its convinced me to give distributed repo's a try.