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I spent the weekend looking into version control systems (specifically CVS and Subversion). After fooling around with CVS for a while, I went to SVN to check it out.

Overall, I like SVN better. I find it a little easier to work with. I’m not sure if I like how each commit creates a new project-wide revision; with CVS, each file had it’s own revision number.

Anyway, just wanted to give a shout out to the devs that aren’t using a version control system, to, er… start using one lol. It’s really quite helpful. It’ll let you look at the differences between versions of files, keep a history of all files etc. Even more useful if you’re in a multi-developer project (in which case, I don’t know how you were managing without one).

My new host let me set up a SVN rep, and I use a SSH tunnel with TortoiseSVN to manage my working directory on localhost. Very cool stuff

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