Question

What is the best version conrtol application? I’ll setup it to my Windows 7. I have installed WAMP. So it could be eider Windows 7 application or PHP application. And my purpose is to manage / version-control PHP files only.

Answer 1

For windows, it’s hard to beat the simplicity of SVN via Tortoise SVN. That being said, I much prefer the power, speed, model, and flexibility of git. git runs on windows, and would be well worth the effort it takes to learn.

Understanding the brilliance behind git will pay huge dividends to you as a software engineer.

15 second Git tutorial
Edit: It was 17 seconds.

Git started:

cd c:\dev\project
git init
git add .
git commit -m "Initial Commit"

Edit edit edit:

git add file1.txt
git add file2.txt
git commit -m "Fixed up thingy."

Look at status:

git status

Look at history:

git log