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    Choosing Source Control

    We are only 2 developers at my work, and we are not using any source control right now. Most of our projects are quite small, mostly ASP.NET, with VS2008 (but we plan to move to VS2010 soon), with a few thousand lines of code. We almost never work on the same project at the same time, unless there is a big problem and we both try to figure out what went wrong...

    We want to start using source control. My boss gave me 2 options Git or Source Safe (and open to other suggestions as long as it's free / open source)... from what I've been reading online they are the 2 extremes. Git is the best out there, but really difficult to learn, and Source Safe is the worst, but easy to use.

    I've also read about Mercurial, Bazaar and Subversion, and comparisons between them, but I still can't decide what we should get...

    Here are some links to what I've been reading:
    https://groups.google.com/forum/?fro...ws/LFBvkM2ZBw0
    http://programmers.stackexchange.com...rial-or-git-or
    http://jonathan.hilgeman.com/index.p...rsion-control/
    http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/...ual-Studio-NET
    http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/...Beginners-Tour
    http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008...ntrol-systems/
    http://steveko.wordpress.com/2012/02...ate-about-git/

    In the end I still can't decide... but I am thinking... because we are only 2 developers, working on small applications, maybe we should just get Visual Source Safe, and get it over with the easy way

    What source control do you use? and what do you think about it?
    What do you think we should use?

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    Re: Choosing Source Control

    Personally I think the problems with sourcesafe are hugely overstated. I used it for years (well over a decade) and never had any significant problem. On the few occasions it did do something unexpected it was invariably because we did somethong wrong (sharing a file between two projects when we thought we'd copied it, for example). If you can get it then it's a good and simple solution. However, it's no longer available for purchase AFAIK. You might still get it through MSDN subscriptions and you can probably pick up second hand boxed copies but I'm pretty sure you can no longer buy a boxed copy from new.

    Personally I now use TFS which comes with Visual Studio (not sure which editions though). To buy it as a stand alone is pretty expensive but I did a quick google and it looks like there's an express edition. I assume that's free to use. TFS is capable of ALOT more than source control, it does work load tracking, case management etc. but you can run it in a stripped down configuration that basically works the same as source safe from a user perspective.
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