Report What version control system do you use for the project your working on?

Poll started by lodle with 1,331 votes and 47 comments. Browse the poll archive.

 22%

(294 votes)Svn

 2%

(21 votes)Git

 1%

(10 votes)Cvs

 1%

(10 votes)Mercurial

 2%

(26 votes)Other (Please comment)

 8%

(101 votes)None

 30%

(396 votes)Version Control?

 36%

(473 votes)Not working on a project

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lodle Creator
lodle

Love svn. Find git and mercurial hard to use.

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Dremth
Dremth

I agree. SVN is rather simple compared to the others, and it seems to be more widely used.

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Dragonlord
Dragonlord

I'm up with Subversion too. It can really crank up from time to time but it's usually rather simple to fix ( svnadmin recover repository ). What it fails at is working with moving files or directories around and deleting directories with all files inside ( requires two commits to work properly ). But that's a minor problem if you know it and happens scarcely. GIT seems to be the new fart right now. Never used it so far but many major projects switch(ed) to GIT so it seems to be not a one-day fly. I heard many say that GIT is more "professional" than Subversion. No idea what exactly they mean with this though.

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Silverfisk
Silverfisk

SVN because my mate knew how to set it up.

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Scav3nger
Scav3nger

Ditto that sir

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revengous
revengous

What is version control?

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X988123
X988123

second that

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lodle Creator
lodle

Version control is a software program that you check your code and art assets into and it keeps track of changes and by who. Very useful for game teams as it keeps a track of who does what and when and also handles merging of changes and backups.

En.wikipedia.org

Moddb.com

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MRP_REMEDY
MRP_REMEDY

wow thanks thats great. now we can use that for our project DBT!!!

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NullSoldier
NullSoldier

I use the one that doesn't suck, SVN.

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phipe
phipe

Sadly i am not working on a project. However, if i did it would probarly been with something easy.

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awesomepossum
awesomepossum

Tortoise SVN ftw!

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Cryrid
Cryrid

Same as we use

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Varsity
Varsity

Perforce. No faffing around with the command line here!

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Feared
Feared

Command line is by far the best.

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Kamikazi[Uk]
Kamikazi[Uk]

Tortoise Svn is by far the best for most projects. It's very reliable and there is a lot of free hosting sites such as Xp-Dev and Sourceforge so we use it all the time.

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ConfusedMaster
ConfusedMaster

well... i guess this is only needed in large teams

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Six_Ways
Six_Ways

You'd be surprised. I'm in a 2-man team and SVN helps a helluva lot. If you're working on a project as part of a team it's definitely worth looking into.

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Bluedrake42
Bluedrake42

haha yeah **** mercurial haha that program ain't **** hahaha

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cW#Ravenblood

versiol control?!

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Ark_
Ark_

We are using dropbox atm. we had a svn for a while (worked great) but when we needed privacy we found it hard to find a free passworded svn for art and code, so we switched to dropbox.

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TexZK
TexZK

Tortoise SVN for open source projects, especially for coding.
I also use Dropbox at school for sharing the same project with privacy support :-)
Both are very useful yet easy to use.

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Smonocco
Smonocco

Hadn't heard of then 'til today

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Mr.John
Mr.John

no projects, stupid comment:

WTF IS THIS?!

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AntiSocialKindaGuy
AntiSocialKindaGuy

How any dev team gets by without at least some sort of source control I don't know. Even if it's just a rapid means of distributing changelists to testers, it's a great tool.

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Elementalist
Elementalist

When you have either a small team, or a single person controlling builds, it's pretty easy.

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AntiSocialKindaGuy
AntiSocialKindaGuy

I run a team of 3 with 5 testers, and just having a means for testers to get the very latest version without having to make a build - and for them to only download what they need automatically - is great.

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Techercizer
Techercizer

Yeah, I mainly work with two other people, and if I didn't have Tortoise svn I'd still be playtesting a two-week old version. It would be such a pain to check with teammembers every single day instead of just clicking svn update.

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Phott
Phott

SVN, don't know why as I just joined, but so far I find it very good and simple enough for a new user to get used to.

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Lopper
Lopper

whats version control???!!!

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lodle Creator
lodle

Read my post(around 6th from the top)

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Gary_McTaggart
Gary_McTaggart

Perforce.

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BurroDiablo
BurroDiablo

SVN all the way

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piper647
piper647

live mesh :33

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SAHChandler
SAHChandler

git all the way mang.

command line 4 lyfe

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m82sniper
m82sniper

Svn, so awesome.

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Smallchange
Smallchange

The only project i am working on is a map for CNC3

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TheHappyFriar
TheHappyFriar

e-mail. :p

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OnyeNacho
OnyeNacho

svn beats all. the rest kinda suck....

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rexflinter
rexflinter

Woot! Go "Not working on a project"! We gotta prove that we're just parasites here, not giving anything back to the community!

...(lol)

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OrdinaryMagician
OrdinaryMagician

I simply keep all builds of my projects on separate zips. ¬¬

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Feared
Feared

...

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jezek2
jezek2

Using Monotone, this one was big inspiration for Git creators btw :)

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KingKannibal
KingKannibal

wow...these tools sound like something I would assent to using!

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Herr_Alien
Herr_Alien

RCS.
Works great on your own computer. On two other projects I do use SVN too though.

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DuckSauce
DuckSauce

Currently nothing, used to have SVN but my computer went mad and randomly deleted stuff occasionaly on boot time.

By the time it stopped it broke the SVN installation and I didn't bother getting it again.

Been carefull about my backupping processes since then, but now since yesterday I am using Syncplicity it's not a version control system but it at least makes it quick and easy(actually don't have to do anything) to get my backups online just incase something happens to both my computer and USB hard drive.

Can recommend to everyone, but like I said, it's not version control so only the latest changes will be retrievable... I think :P

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shinobi718
shinobi718

I put none because i working on something alone, but I would use svn.

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