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What do you use for version / source control?
Published by Ewan on Monday 24th November 2008, 15:51 Comments | Filed under: Opinion

I’ve had an email from a reader, Nigel, this morning asking about version and source control services:

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Hi Ewan,

Can you tell me what services you recommend for version / source control of software. We’re looking for a hosted service that will allow our developers to collaborate with each other, check-in/check-out files and so on. Do you have any ideas?

Thanks
Nigel

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What does the mobile industry use for source control then? There must be some good hosted environments for this kind of thing. I did a search and found Dynamsoft’s SourceSafe system — looks rather nifty. Have a look at that one, Nigel.

Any other suggestions?

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  • At GoSpoken, we're using http://beanstalkapp.com for hosted Subversion. Highly recommended!

    Take a look at Git too - it offers a lot more than SVN, and can be used in conjunction with it too.
  • Wolf Luecker
    The industry standards for any software development now are CVS, SVN (or indeed Git). I wouldn't recommend some 'MS SourceSafe replacement', which is another proprietary system.

    There are plenty of very reasonable hosted SVN services, like Beanstalk, CVSdude, or Unfuddle (which is what we use).
  • loopy
    Check out the open source CVS type software here: http://www.thefreecountry.com/programming/versi...

    Most good hosting companies are supporting these.
  • Simon Wilcox
    We use Subversion running on our own server. It's pretty easy to set up and uses apache & webdav. Bear in mind backup if you use a hosted service - you can't afford to lose your source !
  • Good suggestions!
  • Another vote for cvs/subversion.

    Integrate it with Trac for a good team working env.
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