Good version control app

Question

Which application to convert the best versions? I will configure it on my Windows 7. I installed WAMP. So it could be a Windows 7 application or a PHP application. And my goal is to manage only PHP files with versions.

Answer 1

For windows, it’s hard to rule out the simplicity of SVN through Tortoise SVN . However, I prefer git power, speed, model and flexibility. git runs in windows and will be worth what it takes to find out.

Understanding the brilliance for git will bring you huge dividends as a software engineer.

15 seconds git tutorial Edit: 17 seconds have passed.

Git:

cd c:\dev\project git init git add . git commit -m "Initial Commit" 

Edit Editing:

 git add file1.txt git add file2.txt git commit -m "Fixed up thingy." 

View status:

 git status 

Look at the story:

 git log 

Answer 2

I am happy on Windows 7 with Subversion with TortoiseSVN as a Client. VisualSVN Server is a nice, targeted solution for setting up a server with very small problems.

If you are using 64-bit Windows, be sure to install the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Tortoise, so that you get Shell integration from the 32-bit IDE.

Answer 3

• Git
• Mercurial (see TortoiseHg )
• Subversion (see TortoiseSVN )

All 3 are great - an experiment to see which is best for you. For hosting the repository, check out Github , Bitbucket (Mercurial) and Beanstalk (svn).

Answer 4

My preference is perforce , free for home use (up to 2 users) and trivial to configure if your code repository is on the same machine you are writing the code on. Only a little harder if it is not.

It scales well enough that it is used in many professional coding homes. And it integrates with VisualStudio (they tell me I use the command line version because I'm an old timer).