[COLUG] recommendations for revision control system

[Rob Funk]

Steve Lefevre wrote:
> Hello all -
>
> I'm asking for recommendations for a revision control system. At my
> place of employment I'd like to get one going for PHP/MySQL
> development. What is the most widely used system? What do you
> recommend, and why?

Most common system these days is probably Subversion, but its usage is 
declining these days in favor of distributed systems.  Of those, I'm 
seeing "git" usage increase quite a bit, but that may be because I'm 
hanging out in the Ruby community.

> We're also looking for an online host for the server, so we want one
> that's popular enough to have competitively priced hosting options :)

Hosting is a whole other topic, though for your purposes a virtual private 
server (VPS) may be what you're looking for.


However, if you use a distributed system such as git, you may not even 
need a server.  You can have each developer do their checkins on their 
own machines, and occasionally push/pull with other developers directly.

Of course, distributed systems can be used just like the old centralized 
systems just by designating one tree somewhere as the master tree.  But 
the distributed capability gives a lot more flexibility even if you work 
that way.

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