We have a 5 person team, we are looking for a version control system for our PHP project, any suggestion / direction? We use a mix of windows / OSX. Using a Linux based web server.
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Re: Ask HN: Version control for PHP?
#2Git should work just fine.
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#3I use Subversion because it was the system used at my job, but I also used Git for personal projects ant had no problems with either. I think Subversion is a bit more "Windows-friendly" and there are plugins for most IDE's, but Git is very powerful.
Re: Ask HN: Version control for PHP?
#4Git. Although I don't know how it performs on windows. OS X and Linux is just fine.
To give you a better answer please provide information about version control knowledge, such as "Did you ever use a VCS?", "What did you use before?".
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#6If you must use Windows, Mercurial is known to be more Windows-friendly than Git while maintaining many/most of its benefits (and has very similar command syntax). It's written in Python and so works beautifully on Windows, OSX and Linux...
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Tutorial is as good a place to start as any (or see http://mercurial.selenic.com/guide/) for pointers to some tutorials...
Re: Ask HN: Version control for PHP?
#7If you must use Windows, Mercurial is known to be more Windows-friendly than Git while maintaining many/most of its benefits (and has very similar command syntax). It's written in Python and so works beautifully on Windows, OSX and Linux... http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Tutorial is as good a place to start as any (or see http://mercurial.selenic.com/guide/ ) for pointers to some tutorials...
Also, a suggestion - don't go anywhere near SVN. You'll thank us in the long run... :)
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#8We have never used version control before, we literally have no idea what we are doing. Any help?