Thread: Best Project Management and Revision Control Software?

Originally Posted by phantomotap

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Oh. In my not-so-humble opinion, you are insane if you use CVS or SVN for a new project. Use Git, Bazaar, Mercurial, or whatever, but please stay away from CVS and SVN. Please. Pretty please!? ;_;
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Soma

That's moronic. What if you don't have a choice? And the "best" is whatever is most suited to the task and user. Plus you're forgetting it's one of the most widely used version control suites, which is one reason to use it (not because you're "following the pack") -- but for the same reason you pick standard libraries over some third-party library that does the same thing even if better (because of testing, documentation, training, etc)).

Well, sarah22 clearly has a choice, otherwise this whole thread is pointless. Distributed version control systems can replace centralised ones since they can be used like them, but not vice versa (at least not without a great deal of trouble).

I like to throw them off base a little bit by recommending RCS.

>_< Critical Hit!

What is so bad about SVN that makes you say people are insane using it?

There is something fundamentally wrong with a system that forces me to do monotonous micromanaging tasks by hand when such tasks may be managed by the system. I don't like to babysit! >_<

The SVN source has a few bugs that must not or can not be fixed for various historical reasons. (You can look at the handling for some text formats.) These bugs are rare, but when these bugs bite, they bite hard.

What if you don't have a choice?

Then whoever made the decision is insane. What are you not getting?

CVS is still used "everywhere". CVS is an extremely well documented, widely available legacy system. Are you going to apply the same logic to it?

Soma

Originally Posted by phantomotap

>_< Critical Hit!



There is something fundamentally wrong with a system that forces me to do monotonous micromanaging tasks by hand when such tasks may be managed by the system. I don't like to babysit! >_<

The SVN source has a few bugs that must not or can not be fixed for various historical reasons. (You can look at the handling for some text formats.) These bugs are rare, but when these bugs bite, they bite hard.



Then whoever made the decision is insane. What are you not getting?

CVS is still used "everywhere". CVS is an extremely well documented, widely available legacy system. Are you going to apply the same logic to it?

Soma

You don't present an argument at all. You're saying don't use "SVN because you don't have to"... What!? As you said CVS is a legacy system, SVN is not. And there is no reason to make it one. The other RCS suites may provide alternative ways of managing things, but you give no metric for "better" when describing RCS. There are undoubtedly bugs in the other "must have" RCS suites you mention, why make SVN an exception? At least you say they're known about and documented (and there are probably work arounds). Unless your RCS is completely transparent, you're going to be babysitting, get used to it.

O_o

You are very clearly attached to your choice of SVN. I can see that you have a different opinion than me. Fine. You have stated your opinion in answering the question at hand. Great. But! Stop trying to treat this as if it is an expression of a sound debate. You are not going to change my mind. I'm not trying to change yours. If you want to present an argument for choosing SVN, go for it.

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I refuse to babysit a tool. If a tool can't fulfill a contract, I'll get or build a different tool. If some tool fails me, I'll get or build a different tool. If a tool is outdated by virtue of advancements in technology, I'll get or build a different tool.

I'm not trying to bring anyone around to my way of thinking. I honestly don't care how you choose to do whatever you choose to do so long as I don't have to deal with it. Unfortunately for me, that is exactly what I'm often hired to do. I usually get hired to fix the mistakes other people make. I hate dealing with nonsense because of the insane magic of "legacy support". A flamethrower fixes a lot of problems faster than a scalpel.
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Soma

Just eeny, miny, moe between SVN or Mercurial. They are both easy to use and any of them will serve your needs. The fact you don't know what to use tells us that much.

SVN has the merge limitations (not that you know what that is at this point), but moving from SVN to Mercurial later, if needed be, is not difficult at all. So for all purposes, any of these will serve your purposes and they are both good tools.

Originally Posted by sarah22

He also told me about Trac, Mantis, Bugzilla and Redmine which I found out a Project Management Software. Do this softwares also help me on my project?

The first three are bug trackers. Redmine is project management software. Yes, they may help you with your project, but unlike version control the benefits tend to only appear when you have more developers and/or users. Incidentally, if you do decide to use Bazaar for version control, Launchpad would be a project hosting website that you might want to use. I consider Bazaar to be about as easy to use as Mercurial.

Originally Posted by sarah22

Honestly, I don't know what I need. Someone just recommended me that I should use a revision control software like svn (the one he's using) so I can manage my codes better.

He also told me about Trac, Mantis, Bugzilla and Redmine which I found out a Project Management Software. Do this softwares also help me on my project?

Really..... I don't know what to say after reading this thread. :|

I guess I've used the wrong topic title. I don't intend to make a flame war thread. The word "Best", is like a bomb, really. lol

Thank you
Sarah

Funny huh? If you posted a thread here asking for the "fruitiest flavour of jam" it would start a flamewar, so dont worry about it.

Oh, and touting Mercurial again: bitbucket.org is a free project hosting site that allows you to store revisions and gives you bug tracking.

The real answer is to have a go at a few and see what works for you. SVN, Mercurial, Bazaar, Git are all decent, open source with good support, so have a look and see what fits for you

I wish people wouldn't call "flame war" every time there's a difference of opinions. Ruins the effect of real flame wars and quite frankly rarely we have those around these forums.

Maybe we should all just get along and agree in everything, right?

Originally Posted by sarah22

I tried searching about Git but I found out that it was really made for Linux. It has some port available but you'll noticed some slowdown and glitch.

You mean msysgit? I'm unsure as to what type of program you are developing that shows a slowdown while using this. I never noticed.

So, what I plan now is, I'll just register on those free source code repository around the net. Which I think is much better than having it on my home then connect it via hamachi. And using redmine alone on my network is kinda stupid, that's what I think.

Err... I'm not sure what you want to do. Hamachi? Can you even connect to sourceforge through hamachi? And why would you want to do that?

Does sourceforge support mercurial?

Yes.

Have you ever heard about forking?

They don't go to bitbucket.
Mercurial – sourceforge

As for forks, Here.