Ask HN: Which versioning system to learn on?

Posted by tertius on Monday May 11, 2009 @03:35AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm jumping in on the deep side after completing my bachelors in CompSci... I haven't coded in a long time. I'm going to jump into django and try to pull off a project.

I need versioning (understand it, have never used it). Where do I start?

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Re:Ask HN: Which versioning system to learn on? by dfranke on Monday May 11, 2009 @03:51AM (#603144)

Subversion is the lowest common denominator and you'll end up using it sooner or later. You might as well learn it even if you expect to move to a DVCS later on.

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Re:Ask HN: Which versioning system to learn on? by _pius on Monday May 11, 2009 @11:13AM (#603597)

Git.

http://github.com/guides/home

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Re:Ask HN: Which versioning system to learn on? by randomtask on Monday May 11, 2009 @09:10AM (#603397)

If you're looking for a really easy to follow guide to get everything installed quickly then try http://www.geocities.com/arhuaco/doc/subversion/apache-subve...

Subversion also has a really nice Windows client in TortoiseSVN if that's any use to you.

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Re:Ask HN: Which versioning system to learn on? by pogos on Monday May 11, 2009 @05:02AM (#603204)

Start with mercurial.

http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/

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Re:Ask HN: Which versioning system to learn on? by tertius on Monday May 11, 2009 @11:44AM (#603661)

So I'm told to start with the following:

- Subversion - RCS - CVS - Git - Subversion - Mercurial - Git

I'm seeing subversion as the most upvoted, I'll give that a go (starting Wednesday so there's still time to change).

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Re:Ask HN: Which versioning system to learn on? by Ravir on Monday May 11, 2009 @05:55AM (#603243)

RCS: http://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/

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Re:Ask HN: Which versioning system to learn on? by known on Monday May 11, 2009 @06:48AM (#603272)

I think it is better to learn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Versions_System

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Re:Ask HN: Which versioning system to learn on? by stonemetal on Monday May 11, 2009 @08:04AM (#603336)

poke around the web say github or bitbucket and find a place that will give you a small free private repo and use what they offer to test the waters.

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