

The three others are called 'distributed'. Meaning everyone will always go fetch the latest version and commit their latest work to one central system, often on another system although it can easily be on your own machine. Subversion has been there for a while and it's one classified as 'centralized'.

So here are some very popular free version control systems: There are a few excellent commercial products but the free ones have nothing to be ashamed of. of course, additional points for backing up your version control system, we're never too cautious, you don't want to have to restart that month-long project do you?Īs some have said, you have a few choices for your version control system and I guess you'll want a free one to begin.
#Versiontracker php code#
If something stops working in your project and you have the feeling it worked at one point, you can test some of the prior versions easily and look at the difference between the working version and the non-working version to find what broke the code.Never fear to start off some major refactoring, if you make a mistake on your file, you'll just rollback to the latest version.Never wondering what is your latest version once you go back to a project (no more myproject090201-archive2-final6.zip).However, you will find great benefits to using a version control system. If you are the only developer, it is indeed easier to go without version control. It's working great with PHP for me and it will for you too. And the language you are using doesn't matter.
