Comments on: Why Use Subversion? Two Reasons: Revert and Branches

By: pilot

pilot — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 13:25:30 +0000

Nice post dude,
I remembe that time while I was developing a project with VB and SQL for my final semester. I had many copies of my codes safely kept as backup everywhere in my computer. Sometime I lost track which copy is my current working version. If I knew about version control and able to use it I guess I could be able to finish the project much faster and easily

By: Joe Hughes

Joe Hughes — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:26:26 +0000

Great write up.!

As a single-user the other huge advantage to version control is documenting your changes.

By: Bence Vörösmarti

Bence Vörösmarti — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:26:48 +0000

Once you start looking at logs and Diff old revisions with your working copy you start using all “single-user” functions of subversion.

On a win32 based computer, using TortoiseSVN you can set up your own repository and manage it completely from GUI, and don’t even need to install Subversion and a server for it.

There’s jut no excuse not to use it. Much better than keeping a million backups.

By: Rob Wilkerson

Rob Wilkerson — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:18:15 +0000

I couldn’t agree more, but let’s be clear that there is a learning curve. Be patient and take the time. You won’t be able to plug and play, but once you establish a certain level of proficiency you’ll never be able to go back.

Subversion and source control in general make life *much* easier over time.