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Dev Chair : Beanstalk is Subversion without the hassle
Subversion is arguably the world's most popular source control system, and many a developer's best friend. It keeps things organized, it helps you gracefully recover from your mistakes, and it makes managing branches and versions of your projects dead simple. What isn't always dead simple is setting up or managing the Subversion repository. Sure, the software is free but, your developer's time definitely isn't. If you've delegated the hassles of managing your source control to one of your senior developers, you're likely making a crucial mistake that is costing you money.Beanstalk takes the burden of setting up and maintaining Subversion out of the equation. For $15 a month and up -- or free for a tiny project not needing per-commit backups -- Beanstalk gives you Subversion as well as integration with Twitter, Basecamp, Campfire, and more. Use any Subversion client you want! Cooler still, if you're using Beanstalk's SVN to manage a website, they've made it super simple to set up FTP deployment on commit, so every time you commit a change it can go live on your domain.
For cost to hassle ratio, I personally have to say spending $15 bucks a month for someone else to worry about keeping my Subversion server running and backed up might be the best $15 I've ever spent.
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Matias Korhonen said 6:16PM on 6-09-2009
Or how about you use a better, easier version control system?
My personal preference is for Git, but you could go with Mercurial or Bazaar if you like. Plus if you use Git, you get to use the excellent GitHub service (free for OSS projects, http://github.com/).
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KirbyMeister said 8:15PM on 6-09-2009
Git is -lightyears- ahead of SVN. It's lighting fast even on Windows, especially when you talk about maintaining multiple branches of development.
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Robert Johnson said 5:42PM on 8-06-2009
We've been using BeanStalk internally for a while and are very happy with it. We liked using it so much that we also developed integration between our help desk and bug tracking application, TeamSupport.com, and Beanstalk. This integration lets you assign commits to specific bug or feature request tickets and provides a seamless workflow.
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