Posted by "M. Sokolewicz" on 10/21/62 11:17

Marcus Bointon wrote:
> 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

another CVS/SVN helper-application is smartSVN (or smartCVS for CVS):
http://www.smartsvn.com/ (http://www.smartcvs.com/ for CVS). Those
applications are really nice, personally I find that they are far easier
to handle than tortoiseCVS(/SVN)

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