Poll: Version Control

#1

Post by wtrk » Wed, Oct 08, 2008, 4:29 PM UTC

Which version control system are you using, right now, for your startup and/or for personal projects?

Re: Poll: Version Control

#2

Post by GuyE » Wed, Oct 08, 2008, 4:53 PM UTC

Subversion

Re: Poll: Version Control

#3

Post by apgwoz » Wed, Oct 08, 2008, 4:53 PM UTC

I adopted mercurial when git was "painful" to use. It seems as though this has changed, but I see no compelling reason to switch just because all the Rails kids think git's cool right now.

Re: Poll: Version Control

#4

Post by there » Wed, Oct 08, 2008, 5:01 PM UTC

i'd like to know why people are using what they are. did you pick git because you just recently started using version control or was there really something you needed in it that made you switch?

i've been using cvs for about 10 years now and have no reason to switch to anything else. it does what i need without any extra fluff, all my projects are in cvs, and the majority of the projects i contribute to use cvs.

Re: Poll: Version Control

#5

Post by nihilocrat » Wed, Oct 08, 2008, 5:06 PM UTC

there wrote: post #4

i'd like to know why people are using what they are. did you pick git because you just recently started using version control or was there really something you needed in it that made you switch? i've been using cvs for about 10 years now and have no reason to switch to anything else. it does what i need without any extra fluff, all my projects are in cvs, and the majority of the projects i contribute to use cvs.

Using bzr: our development is done in Python, so it's handy to be able to a) modify things if we need to and b) bundle bzr with our company's python install.

It was the first distributed VCS I have used. I highly suggest it for personal or small projects, as it supports "dumb storage" and thus you can host a repo anywhere you have ftp or sftp access. It is also handy for working around annoying firewall restrictions where you can't really checkout code the way a centralized system does.

Re: Poll: Version Control

#6

Post by silentbicycle » Wed, Oct 08, 2008, 5:16 PM UTC

there wrote: post #4

i'd like to know why people are using what they are. did you pick git because you just recently started using version control or was there really something you needed in it that made you switch? i've been using cvs for about 10 years now and have no reason to switch to anything else. it does what i need without any extra fluff, all my projects are in cvs, and the majority of the projects i contribute to use cvs.

Using mercurial -- it and git seem significantly better than the rest, but when I recently test-rode them both, mercurial felt like it worked better cross-platform, and the overall design felt cleaner. Git would be my second choice, and I'm sure github and the network effect will do a lot to popularize it.

(I've read several blog posts in which people try git and are absolutely thrilled, but in almost all cases they were previously using CVS or SVN.)

FWIW, I had been using Monotone for a while, but mercurial seems quite a bit simpler in day to day use.

Re: Poll: Version Control

#7

Post by bayareaguy » Wed, Oct 08, 2008, 5:24 PM UTC

fossil

Re: Poll: Version Control

#8

Post by llimllib » Wed, Oct 08, 2008, 5:24 PM UTC

there wrote: post #4

i'd like to know why people are using what they are. did you pick git because you just recently started using version control or was there really something you needed in it that made you switch? i've been using cvs for about 10 years now and have no reason to switch to anything else. it does what i need without any extra fluff, all my projects are in cvs, and the majority of the projects i contribute to use cvs.

git because I was able to introduce it gradually, due to its great svn integration. We just switched to it fully last week.

I love DVCS because I get to keep the code on my computer version-controlled, and the power of branching, merging, and cherry-picking is awesome once you get used to it.

Re: Poll: Version Control

#9

Post by kingkongrevenge » Wed, Oct 08, 2008, 5:25 PM UTC

Multiple daily backups produced by rsync using hardlinks works well when revisions are too drastic and frequent to give a meaningful history. version control will just get in the way of one or two people drastically refactoring a young project.

Re: Poll: Version Control

#10

Post by bestes » Wed, Oct 08, 2008, 5:26 PM UTC

I use git because the low-level design is rock-solid and simple enough for me to understand. I also like distributed version control for the work alone and on a team aspect. This does not mean git is easy to use or that I'm even very good at it, BTW.