Re: Version Control Sofwtare

Eug,

Hi, I am the only developer in my company and for vesrion control I just copy files in different directories. Simple and quick. Will I benefit by actually using Version control Software?
Any lone developers using software for Version control?

As the saying goes: version control is like flossing your teeth. You don't have to floss all of them - only the ones you wanna keep ;)

Yes, imho version control will be an enormous help, even in a single developer scenario. If nothing else, it will give you clean and easy access to the version history of your files, make it easy to revert to specific older versions of certain files (or sets of files) and allow you to build different "states" of your project (say, to distinguish between last release vs current beta version, or to rebuild an old v1 version of a product to reproduce and fix and old bug).

The imho biggest trick for getting into using version control is to find the right tool that you are happy to work with. I spent the longest time evaluating different VCS systems and found them all to be a chore to use - and as it usually goes, if something is a pain to use, you will end up not using it as properly and as much as you should - until i found one that i was really happy with an actually enjoyed working with.

As it stands now, and i do more and project management (and less and less coding) tasks, i spend a large portion of my day in the VCS, and it's good that i have one that i like using*.

(*which for me is Team Coherence; but tastes vary wildly so your best option is to look around and try many different ones to see which one you like best).

hth,

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marc hoffman
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RemObjects Software
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