I'm working on a project with a geographically and OS-diverse team - Windows, Linux, OSX - and I'm looking for folks who have done this for recommendations on which technology they use for source code control and whether they used a hosting provider.
I'm a fan of git and have a paid account on github I've used when working with other LAMP/Rails developers. I've also used unfuddle with that team. Both worked flawlessly for the Linux and OSX folks, but the Windows team never found a client tool they were particularly comfortable with. I'm wondering if one of the other distributed version control systems - mercurial, bazaar, or any others - has a better user story on the Windows platform. I've grabbed the latest mSysgit and it looks pretty good, vastly improved from a few years ago. We might go with that, unless anyone can suggest a killer app or point out a showstopper. The goal is sharing source code, not losing changes, and easy deployment (ultimate target is a Windows Server). DVCS lets each developer or designer tweak code and only merge changes into master branches at their discretion. GUI is a nice-to-have, especially for the Microsoft Mouse-keteers. Paid hosting is nice to have, just for a little disaster recovery and to lift some of the admin gruntwork off developers, but not necessary. Free hosting would be a benefit. Integration with issue-tracking/project-management (Redmine, Jira, Trac) is probably overkill for this small team. Recommendations? -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
