Re: [PHP] Question about version control.. sorta..

What I'd ideally like to do is be able to use a CVS type system to keep
incremental backups of the code.

Space is so cheap these days I don't think is particularly useful to
do incremental backups unless you have a hell of a lot of data. I
simply do full backups daily. Now...

So instead of checking code out of CVS,
changing it, then checking it back in... I'd like to just do a mass checkin
of the whole site and have changes recorded and the ability to look at
previous versions with DIFF and all that. And of course the ability to
'check out' a previous set of files by date or revision maybe.

You can definitely do this with CVS and I assume SVN. I keep a
separate "abbreviated" change log which I compile manually from
checkin diffs. This changelog is what I publish. No one wants to know
about the whitespace changes I've done for example. Or maybe they do -
saddos

I assume you can do this with one of the major version control systems, but
mostly what I see with how to use these systems involves checking code out
then checking it back in. That's not really what I want to do.

I find it quite useful. It's an extra step but the advantages it
provides are more than worth it.

The other issue is that I run Windows. So if there's something nice and
WinGUI, that'd be nice. Please no "you should be running linux"

You should be running linux. Muhaha.

responses. I don't have anything against Linux or Mac, they're great
systems. But I have my reasons for running Windows.

There's definitely a Gui for CVS. TurtleCVS IIRC. Presumably there's
one for SVN.

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