What is a good source control program?

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I am using Visual Studio 2017, developing Windows apps. I will be looking to hire a couple programmers soon and will need to make sure the new guys don't step on my previous work.

I've used Visual Source Safe quite a bit over the years, but have not needed version control in over ten years.

What I have tried:

Looking for recommendations and suggestions from fellow programmers.

Posted 7-Mar-19 11:15am

Randy Crockett

Updated 7-Mar-19 14:14pm

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PIEBALDconsult 7-Mar-19 23:29pm

Roll your own.

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F-ES Sitecore · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-07T11:42:00

I'd look into git. You can run a git server and have your devs connect to it. Visual Studio supports git so you can check in\out, examine history etc right from VS, and you'll probably want a dedicated git client too for maybe more advanced tasks. Popular git clients are git extensions, source tree and there are no doubt others.

Another option is TFS, but that's not free.

Mike Hankey · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-07T14:15:00

GIT is a distributed source control system, it creates a local copy of the repository.
There's also Subversion which uses a central repository to keep the data.

So if you want to look at top 10 VCS's see Top 10 Version Control Systems – Hacker Noon[^]

and for a visual guide to VCS's see A Visual Guide to Version Control – BetterExplained[^]

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