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Reasons to Use Version Control [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: I'm a Subversion geek, why I should consider or not consider Mercurial or Git or any other DVCS? What is the value of using version control? I am a relative noob to ...
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Should I understand SVN before I jump to GIT? [closed]

I work in a department where no one has ever used source control before, including myself. I am trying to push the concept. I have spent a little while researching SVN. I some basics learned. I can ...
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Do DVCSes discourage continuous integration?

Say there is a team of ten agile developers. Every day they each pick a task from the board, commits several changes against it, until (by the end of the day) they have completed the task. All ...
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What's so difficult about SVN merges?

Possible Duplicate: I’m a Subversion geek, why should I consider or not consider Mercurial or Git or any other DVCS? Every once in a while, you hear someone saying that distributed version ...
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how to use version control

I'm developing a web site in php in localhost and as modules of it gets completed, I upload it on the cloud so that my friends can alpha test it. As I keep developing, I've lots of files and I lose ...
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Why are tools like git-svn that allow git to integrate with svn useful? [closed]

I have read these related questions: I'm a Subversion geek, why should I consider or not consider Mercurial or Git or any other DVCS? git for personal (one-man) projects. Overkill? ...and I ...
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Distributed Version-Control for Small Projects

When it comes to very small projects (just a few devs), how effective are distributed version-control systems (e.g., git) compared to systems with a central repository? I like the idea of having a ...
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We're Subversion Geeks and we want to know the benefits of Mercurial [closed]

Having read I'm a Subversion geek, why should I consider or not consider Mercurial or Git or any other DVCS. I have a related follow up question. I read that question and read the recommended links ...
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The need for source control software - Team Foundation Server? or something different? [closed]

Recently, Here at the company, more than one programmer was appointed in charge for a LightSwitch(C#) software development project and immediately there was a need of some sort of source control/sync....
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Training a company to use a DVCS coming from a CVCS mindset, is it as hard as one would think?

So, I'm preparing to consider the outcome of training a lot of people (>25) to use Mercurial coming from a centralized mindset. I've done it with individuals and had success with it, although the time ...
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Distributed Development Tools -- (Version control and Project Management) [closed]

I've recently become responsible for choosing which source control and project management software to use for a company that employs me. Currently it uses Jira (project management) and Subversion (...
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If you decide that branching is a bad thing, then why use Git over SVN? [closed]

I have used Git and Mercurial a bit over the past ten years and appreciate and prefer them, but most of my experience is with SVN. If it is decided within a corporate programming group that branching ...
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