Source Control

[Joe Black]

Have a feeling that any answers given may break out into one of those 'Microsoft is part of the axis of evil', and opensource rules debates, but I thought I'd ask the question anyway.

So, if you were to choose a source/version control tool for a project to be developed on Windows, which one would you recommend and why?

[DaveB]

So, if you were to choose a source/version control tool for a project to be developed on Windows, which one would you recommend and why?

"Doesn't Word have a change tracking function in it?"

Quote from a previous manager when confronted with a request for funding on a CVS package.

More seriously you might want to take a gander at CVSpro - Open source, runs on anything and free if you dont want *all* the bells and whistles.

http://www.march-hare.com/cvspro/

[NoddY]

Why would a version control system care what platform you are developing for?

I think you are hinting at trying to run the repository on the Windows platform?

For this, there is a Windows port for Subversion:

http://subversion.tigris.org/project_packages.html

However I would assume many of the advantages of subversion, such as tight Apache integration (mod_svn using HTTP/S),Trac (http://www.edgewall.com/trac/) etc are a pain to implement on Windows.

RapidSVN is a good Win32 client to talk to svn repositories, local or remote http://rapidsvn.tigris.org/

[Joe Black]

Perhaps a bad choice of wording, but I was trying to keep it short...

Ok, how about "if you were to choose a source/version control tool which runs under Windows, for a Windows based project, which one would you recommend and why?"

[DimPrawn]

I would NOT recommend Vicious Source Safe, that's for sure.

[scotspine]

team system

[Joe Black]

team system

Thought of that as well, and would love to recommend it along with the whole 2005 suite, but...even though I'm the person providing all the tech input into the project, selling it to the business might be a little bit hard.

Still, they did say they wanted me to "push their technical boundaries"...

[mcquiggd]

http://www.sourcegear.com/vault/


I use Vault as its free for individual use, uses a SQL Server 2000 backend, and is Web Service based so I can access it securely over the internet from my server back home - makes a great code repository.

The integration with Visual Studio 2003 is basically the same as SourceSafe.

[Churchill]

Pvcs

[OrangeHopper]

Could you refrain from swearing please Churchill.