Thread: Best Project Management and Revision Control Software?

Originally Posted by sarah22

I just want to know which is the best project management and revision control software?

What is best depends on your requirements. What do you need?

Originally Posted by sarah22

So far, I'm the only own who is coding on my graphics engine. Is it practical to have these softwares? Do I really need these piece of softwares?

You should use a revision control system even when working alone. I have my own preference as can be seen in my signature, but Subversion could well be fine for your purposes.

Originally Posted by sean

Ditto. It's a life-saver when you need a quick backup, or when you need to undo all the changes you've made in the past couple of days

If you're unable to rebuild an older version of your software, then you're just goofing around, not doing real development.

Originally Posted by phantomotap

O_o

WTF!?

If you'd rather do it by hand... screw it. If you'd rather do it by hand, you're an idiot.

Soma

Are you responding to me? Because that's the opposite of what I meant.

Let's try again.

If you're unable to rebuild an older version of your software, because you didn't have the foresight to use source control, then you're just goofing around, not doing real development.

Better?

I kind of like Mercurial SCM with TortoiseHg

But have a look around and see what works best for you

There is always "MK-VCS":

tar -cjf version.0.1.tbz project/


This is not as full featured as the other options, but it is extremely easy and works just fine.

If you don't need merge, Subversion is all you ever need really. Powerful, fast and use it with TortoiseSVN, if under windows, for added goodness. Subversion supports merging but it is crude, really.

If you need merge (typical if you work on two separate versions of your project and then later need to merge these), then I suggest Mercurial. Check Sean's link above for the GUI overlay.

If you want a real heavyweight then I suggest Git. For windows you will use the msysgit port. This is, everyone says, one of the best and most complete source control systems. But this is also... a difficult program to use, with a steep learning curve. Embrace yourself and think that you are doing it in the name of Science; you want to prove the world, mankind is able to complicate things way beyond necessary and still have it work for them.

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

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

But seriously, I like Perforce. I know a lot of people hate it. I know it's commercial. But you can use it for free if you only have one or two developers.

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)).

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.

Originally Posted by Mario F.

If you don't need merge, Subversion is all you ever need really. Powerful, fast and use it with TortoiseSVN, if under windows, for added goodness. Subversion supports merging but it is crude, really.

Are you serious? I've heard a lot of bad things about SVN but I've never heard that one. You can't merge? Who the hell would use it for anything?

Do you mean that it just sucks at resolving conflicts? Because IMHO, that's not a responsibility of a source control system in the first place -- you use an external resolver. Or do you mean that it cannot represent merges in the metadata?