Re: Version Control Sofwtare

Thomas Mueller wrote: 
If you are free to chose, use Subversion. I don't even consider CVS any more
after I tried Subversion. The list of its shortcomings that are (mostly)
fixed in Subversion is rather long.
CVSNT is not bad, and merging works well as it keeps track of when you last merged between branches.

It is still building on CVS of course, but I was happy enough with CVSNT (after CVS) to not switch everyone to Subversion. I also felt it was not different enough to warrant the effort upgrading, and really one of the distributed version control systems like Arch or Darcs might be the way forward in the longer term.

For a sole developer any version control system is worthwhile, and you don't have to worry about team features. I am sure Subversion would be better if starting from scratch.

Charles
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