Ask HN: Version control for PHP?

by thatusertwo on 5/2/2011, 2:49 PM with 6 comments

We have a 5 person team, we are looking for a version control system for our PHP project, any suggestion / direction? We use a mix of windows / OSX. Using a Linux based web server.

  • by tekacs on 5/2/2011, 3:44 PM

    If you must use Windows, Mercurial is known to be more Windows-friendly than Git while maintaining many/most of its benefits (and has very similar command syntax). It's written in Python and so works beautifully on Windows, OSX and Linux...

    http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Tutorial is as good a place to start as any (or see http://mercurial.selenic.com/guide/) for pointers to some tutorials...

  • by robertboloc on 5/2/2011, 3:19 PM

    I use Subversion because it was the system used at my job, but I also used Git for personal projects ant had no problems with either. I think Subversion is a bit more "Windows-friendly" and there are plugins for most IDE's, but Git is very powerful.

  • by oemera on 5/2/2011, 3:35 PM

    Git. Although I don't know how it performs on windows. OS X and Linux is just fine.

    To give you a better answer please provide information about version control knowledge, such as "Did you ever use a VCS?", "What did you use before?".

  • by thatusertwo on 5/4/2011, 3:16 PM

    We have never used version control before, we literally have no idea what we are doing. Any help?

  • by adelevie on 5/2/2011, 3:10 PM

    Git should work just fine.

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