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.
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