Subversion for beginners

Question

I'm doing a web project when I discovered that I need to save my other versions of a file I'm editing so I can easily revert back if something odd happens. I did a little research and found Subversion. But I really don't get the idea of Subversion. Please help me! I'm thinking twice if I can really use it for my project or not. I want to learn new things like Subversion so I can improve my software engineering skills. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

If you are choosing a VCS system from scratch, I would recommend checking out GIT. You can set up a free repository at github.com and they have lots of good documentation as it is somewhat of a steep learning curve.

Git is very impressive on resumes.

Git and Mercurial (Distributed VCS) are very neat systems and they are definately the wave of the future in my opinion.

Here is the open source book for GIT:

http://progit.org/book/