Start with git or svn?

Question

Now I make every time a zip file of all my files to make backups. But then I heard about svn und later I read that git is "better" than svn. Can someone suggest me with which I should start learning?

Answer 1

Neither is "better" than the other; both serve different needs. Subversion is a centralized system; Git is distributed. In Subversion, there is one (and only one) server that everybody reads from and writes to; in Git, each developer has their own repository, and changes are shared by pushing and pulling between these.

If these are your personal files, I recommend to use Git. There is no central server, so it is easier to get started. That being said, Git has a somewhat steeper learning curve, and there are no really good graphical clients; in Windows, as in *nix, you're best off using the command line version.