Hey Rob I'll give you a different perspective. SVN will give you a fairly solid source control but it is at the end of the day source control and source control only. What you are looking for is an ALM (application lifecycle management) suite. There are some really good integration stories out there for SVN to be the version control in your ALM suite. A really good example of that is Jira Studio (http://www.atlassian.com/hosted/studio/tour/). A free solution that is alright but not awesome is Trac. I've used most of Atlassian's these tools as purchased products and they provide an excellent value. One of the big draws for Git, in my opinion, is the ALM story that GitHub has put together (again very impressive). I'll also say that recently I have had the opportunity (well at first I was forced to use it) to work with Microsoft's TFS. TFS is an ALM tool with source control in it. It goes beyond vc, building and deploying. It also helps track user requirements, test cases, developer tasks, and provides a great set of reports. It certainly isn't a cheap solution though (especially if you are not a microsoft shop) but it does provide the best integrated store from Requirements to Deployment that I have seen for the price. Competitors to it would probably be Jira Studio which probably is similar in cost or IBMs ALM tool which would be about 300x as much (okay maybe not quite but their UML tool alone is more than Jira Studio for 50 users). At the end of the day rest assured that weather you choose SVN, Git, TFS, or even CVS in most cases, you'll have some good options out there but not all are free and typically the ones that cost money are worth it but only if you plan to use the features they offer.
Adam On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Randy Merrill <[email protected]> wrote: > There is also TortoiseGit :) > > http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/ > -- > Randy Merrill > > -- > official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ > mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en > -- official tag/function reference: http://openbd.org/manual/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
