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QuestionLooking for version control software Pin
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David Skelly1-Feb-12 22:21
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There are lots of free version control systems available and to be honest the choice between them usually boils down to personal taste. You don't say what development environment you are using (.NET, Java, Python, PHP, something weird and off the shelf) but I don't think that matters.

Subversion is good, mainstream, easy to use (once you get used to it), and has plugins to integrate it with just about any IDE you can think of, and tortoiseSVN is a good GUI for it that integrates well with Windows Explorer.

Flavour of the month are tools like Mercurial, Git, DARCS or Bazaar. I don't think DARCS has a GUI available, the others do. Bazaar is popular in the Python world, Mercurial is the trendy VCS to use in Java circles, and Git is the sweetheart of the open source world at the moment. But all of them work well with any language and with binary files like documents or images.

And to echo what others here have said: the idea that a small company does not need version control is wrong, wrong, wrong. Lack of proper version control just screams "amateur" and tells me that their development procedures are likely to be pretty sloppy in general. So well done for deciding to use your own.
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