GIT

GIT has been developed by Linus Torvalds because of conflicts with the open nature of Linux with the requirements of the source repository. On Linux, it is very well supported and has been a huge hit since. At this moment, the windows support is a bit limited and not up to level of the Linux …

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Hosted

Instead of deploying your own source control server, one can use some of the available source control repositories. On of the biggest is Sourceforge with 230000 projects and 3 million users. There are plenty of others. Depending on the hosting environment, you will need to use certain tools. Most of them support SVN. Depending on …

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About my SCM use

… continued from about page … In a previous life, I did administrate different repositories in different technologies. Those repositories were accessed by multiple people, and in some cases from different environments and different continents. From this experience, sometimes the hard way, I have developed 2 preferences: Subversion and Git. Both work reasonably well, both …

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Windows (client)

Following tools are available on windows: GIT SmartGIT, TortoiseGIT Subversion SmartSVN, TortoiseSVN Visual SourceSafe Visual SourceSafe client Clearcase Clearcase client CVS SmartCVS Command line tools are being disregarded because most windows users are not used to use command line tools.

Source control tools

Overview of source control tools: System Project page (external) Market share (*) SVN / Subverison Apache subversion 55% CVS 12% GIT Official GIT site 7% Clearcase IBM Clearcase 3% VSS / Visual Source-safe Microsoft site 2% Mercurial Selenic site 2% TFS / Team foundation server Microsoft site 2% Bazaar Canonical site 3% Perforce 1% One …

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