[Tfug] Question the second: Revision control

[John Gruenenfelder]

TFUG,

First, many thanks for the input about Python.  It's made my decision
(Python) much easier.  I'm presently working my way through "Dive into
Python 3" and finding it written well enough, and, thankfully, it doesn't
start at the baby level.  Where it is very basic it also tends to be terse.

And thanks for the framework input, too.  I am a programmer of the type
that does like to do a lot of stuff myself.  In a comp. sci. education you
have to do that anyway, but I've also written a lot of code in C and it's
one of the reasons I like working on small/embedded systems.  I wrote all
of the onboard code for the UA's Cubesat myself in C (it's now Cubesat
Crater, 70km from the Cosmodrome thanks to lousy Russian ICBMs...)

Anyway, onto my second request for advice.  When the choice is yours, what
revision control system do you usually use?

Personally, I used CVS for a long time and then switched to Subversion when
it came of age and fixed most of the shortcomings of CVS.

But... these days, on the Net, it seems as if everyone and their brother
has joined the Git parade.  Meanwhile, I've paid it virtually no attention,
under the assumption that what I wanted, exactly, was a *central* system
and not a distributed one.

Maybe that's just a personal choice, as nearly all of the projects have
been just me or a very small group.  Or maybe there are features and
reasons to use Git of which I am unaware?  I don't really know.

--
--Also not a Zack
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