Source Control

kkelly · 5 May 2016 at 19:05

Hi there,

Just wondering what you guys use for source control, currently we use a old legacy SharePoint system that really isn't suitable. So basically looking for recommendations and something that can be ran locally on a network and not online

Thanks

philldutton · 5 May 2016 at 19:23

We use Git which we've found to be a lot better than the others we've tried (SVN, Perforce, SourceSafe).

chroniclard · 5 May 2016 at 19:33

Visual studio online, with a little bit of Git thrown in.

PsychoDuck · 5 May 2016 at 19:43

+1 for Git. At work, combined with the Atlassian suite of products. At home, combined with GitLab installed in a FreeNas jail.

kkelly · 5 May 2016 at 19:46

Thanks guys

will have a play about with Git, I'm trying to bring us with the times

dav3evans · 6 May 2016 at 14:49

Git is a good choice. Having only used it for a couple of months now I've found it to be really useful.

It's worth looking at the tutorial videos the Tower app for Mac has. Even if you aren't on OSX, I found the videos really helpful

john_s · 7 May 2016 at 16:24

TFS at work, VS Online for my own stuff - though I tend to use git in VS Online.

DodgeeRascal · 7 May 2016 at 17:18

I use git for personal projects and we are using SVN at work.

I don't really have a preference for one or the other and fairly familiar with both.

Pho · 7 May 2016 at 19:13

We use mercurial (hg) at work; I personally prefer it to git as the tools are better (TortoiseHG is brililant) but they're pretty much identical in what they achieve.

If the Windows tools for git were as good I'd hapilly migrate all our projects (about 115) over but I always get frustrated with them. A feature of TortoiseHG I use all the time is being able to shelve chunks of files, and being able to have as many shelves as you want, it fits with my work pattern very well as I may end up fixing two bugs at the same time but want to commit them separately or hold one back tempoarily.

Scotty123 · 7 May 2016 at 22:37

Pho said:
We use mercurial (hg) at work; I personally prefer it to git as the tools are better (TortoiseHG is brililant) but they're pretty much identical in what they achieve.

If the Windows tools for git were as good I'd hapilly migrate all our projects (about 115) over but I always get frustrated with them. A feature of TortoiseHG I use all the time is being able to shelve chunks of files, and being able to have as many shelves as you want, it fits with my work pattern very well as I may end up fixing two bugs at the same time but want to commit them separately or hold one back tempoarily.

You can do that with git. Command line anyway. Whether the wide variety of GUIs for windows git support that is another question. I would expect many of them to do so. Jetbrains ides with their git integration do.

Pho · 9 May 2016 at 10:13

Oh OK. Might have to take another look. SourceTree sort of does it but it's horrendously slow which is a shame.

I love command line stuff for nearly everything but for source control I find it doesn't t fit well with my works tyle, it would be far too fiddly. I guess I'm the problem

Spyhop · 9 May 2016 at 20:58

GitHub is so popular that it muddies the water about what git itself is. The whole point of git is that it's decentralised and yet so much of its use is centralised via GitHub

I'm fine with command-line source control but I like GUI programs for diffing because you get smarter layouts and indicators.

kaku · 10 May 2016 at 04:33

At work we use Git with Sourcetree, with GitLab running on a local server for people who want to reference stuff quickly but not bother with Sourcetree.

Deanje · 10 May 2016 at 10:21

Pho said:
Oh OK. Might have to take another look. SourceTree sort of does it but it's horrendously slow which is a shame.

I love command line stuff for nearly everything but for source control I find it doesn't t fit well with my works tyle, it would be far too fiddly. I guess I'm the problem

We use Git with BitBucket; we have VS Online subscriptions, but use it for work management rather than source control due to the web interface being infinitely better on BitBucket.

I've found SourceTree slow and clunky on Windows, but it's perfect in OSX. When developing in Windows it's command-line Git only for me.

Adam-r · 11 May 2016 at 14:53

Deanje said:
We use Git with BitBucket; we have VS Online subscriptions, but use it for work management rather than source control due to the web interface being infinitely better on BitBucket.

I've found SourceTree slow and clunky on Windows, but it's perfect in OSX. When developing in Windows it's command-line Git only for me.

+1 for Git with Bitbucket