Re: Question about version control.. sorta..

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On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 9:40 AM, TG <tg-php@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ok.. so I know about CVS and SVN and unfortunately haven't had as much
> experience with them as I'd like.  I've used them, but always in a really
> basic sense and always on systems that have already been set up.  A friend
> recently mentioned GIT ( http://git.or.cz/ ) too.
>
> But here's my situation..  I deal with dozens of clients.  I usually make a
> backup copy of their site (at least the files, not usually the DB) so I
> have the latest copy of the site to make changes to.  Usually I'm the only
> one working on the site, but sometimes other people may make changes too.
> Not so often than we're conflicting with our changes, or if this is a known
> issue, we make sure to coordinate.
>
> What I'd ideally like to do is be able to use a CVS type system to keep
> incremental backups of the code.  So instead of checking code out of CVS,
> changing it, then checking it back in... I'd like to just do a mass checkin
> of the whole site and have changes recorded and the ability to look at
> previous versions with DIFF and all that.  And of course the ability to
> 'check out' a previous set of files by date or revision maybe.
>
>
> I assume you can do this with one of the major version control systems, but
> mostly what I see with how to use these systems involves checking code out
> then checking it back in.  That's not really what I want to do.
>
> The other issue is that I run Windows.  So if there's something nice and
> WinGUI, that'd be nice.   Please no "you should be running linux"
> responses.  I don't have anything against Linux or Mac, they're great
> systems.  But I have my reasons for running Windows.
>
> Also, I realize this is semi-OT for a PHP list, but asking on a CVS list or
> a
> SVN list might not give me the more comprehensive/broad experience base I'm
> looking for.  I'd like a semi-unbiased response. :)


im not sure how well git works on windows atm, but if youre interested in a
dcvs that works on windows, ive heard good things about mercurial; its
written in python.

http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/

-nathan

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