Thanks for everyone's responses... I think I agree that for a VCS newbie a centralized system would be best, and the existence of Versions.app for SVN for a command-line newbie, also seems to swing it towards choosing SVN. (I never thought I would say this about version control software, but Versions.app makes it look sexy!)
Thanks! On 1 Jul 2009, at 09:47, Felix Gilcher wrote: > I'd recommend SVN as well. Judging from my experience people that > are new to version control systems have an easier time wrapping > their mind around a centralized model. There's a master copy > (repository) and a number of working copies. All synchronization > happens between the repository and the wc. Decentralized version > control systems have a number of copies, each one a repository at > the same time. You're not synchronizing but swapping patches. While > that may or may not be an advantage for your development model, it > certainly complicates things. > > cheers > > felix > > On Jun 30, 2009, at 11:48 PM, David Zülke wrote: > >> Probably SVN with Versions.app as the client if the other person >> does not have a strong technical background or command line ninja >> skills. >> >> - David >> >> >> On 30.06.2009, at 16:23, Michal Charemza wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I was wondering what would be a good version control system for an >>> Agavi project? I do have some specific notes: >>> >>> - It is just a team of two (me and one other) >>> - The other person is not very familiar with PHP (they will be >>> handling more of the graphical design, images, CSS etc). >>> - The other person is unfamiliar with the command line: so a way of >>> dealing with the system in a more graphical fashion would be best >>> - We are both Mac-based. >>> >>> Any suggestions / thoughts would be very welcome. I see Git is quite >>> popular nowadays...? >>> >>> Michal. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> users mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.agavi.org/mailman/listinfo/users >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.agavi.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > -- > Felix Gilcher > > Bitextender GmbH > Paul-Heyse-Str. 6 > D-80336 München > > T: +49 89 57 08 15 16 > F: +49 89 57 08 15 17 > M: +49 172 840 88 28 > > [email protected] > http://bitextender.com/ > > Amtsgericht München, HRB 174280 > Geschäftsführer: David Zülke, Florian Clever > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.agavi.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.agavi.org/mailman/listinfo/users
