Is there a CVS for beginners?
by Philip Mansfield · in Torque Game Builder · 06/07/2006 (10:05 am) · 4 replies
I'm starting to think that I should have a CVS. Handy for backups, and also handy as I occaisionally work on different machines. Emailing files is just asking for versions to get out of sync.
I'm guessing the best solution would be one that I can install onto one of my websites so that I can access the code where ever I happen to be.
Is there a handy guide to getting started, or is there a particular CVS solution I should be looking at? (or am I risking Windows v Linux scale flamewars asking for a recommendation? ;)
TIA.
I'm guessing the best solution would be one that I can install onto one of my websites so that I can access the code where ever I happen to be.
Is there a handy guide to getting started, or is there a particular CVS solution I should be looking at? (or am I risking Windows v Linux scale flamewars asking for a recommendation? ;)
TIA.
#2
06/07/2006 (10:35 am)
My personal favorite solution is to setup a linux cvs pserver, then access from all my development machines. Just using the command line CVSNT on Win32, or command line cvs on linux. I personally dont like tools like Tortoise CVS client, because it slows down MS Explorer file manager. It has to enumerate every directory and look for CVS folders to see if it needs to make them pretty for you. But for a beginner, its easy to get working...
#3
06/07/2006 (1:23 pm)
Version control is good even for lone developers. I also recommend Subversion + TortoiseSVN. I've used CVS as well as some other packages, and Subversion coupled with the Windows shell extension of Tortoise. Well - I'll never use CVS again voluntarily :-) 
Torque Owner Michael Woerister