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Posted by Marcus Bointon on 10/21/26 11:17
On 31 May 2005, at 09:58, Jochem Maas wrote:
> Also I hear lots of good things about subversion (SVN), which is a
> newer alternative for version control - some even say its better.
I can definitely vouch for Subversion. I'm using it for all my PHP
stuff. I'd not used cvs a great deal, but I'd always found it awkward
and svn is certainly easier.
The home page is here: http://subversion.tigris.org/ The
documentation (an online O'Reilly book) is excellent. It's pretty
easy to learn (shares most basic commands with cvs), and there are
many helper apps to work with it, not least TortoiseSVN which looks
and works just like TortoiseCVS. I'm on OSX with OpenBSD and Linux
servers and it's been easy to get it working over HTTPS. There are
some OSX clients (notably svnx), but I find that once you figure out
the commands, the command line interface is very easy to work with.
Consensus seems to be that if you're just starting out in version
control, go straight to svn so you can skip all the reasons that made
them want an upgrade from cvs!
Marcus
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