Is Subversion REALLY the most popular open-source version control system?
I want to say it’s the newest, but I still think CVS is used more often as many software shops (in my experience) are weary about moving away from their ‘legacy’ source control system.
Thoughts?
Best and most popular are very subjective terms. I would guess that subversion is the most popular within the RoR community, but cvs is still champs in the unix world from what I see. In .NET shops I wouldn’t be surprised if they use neither, instead choosing Team Server or Visual Source Safe.
My personally, svn is better than cvs because its histories are bundled around the check-in not the individual files.
(Of course, when I’m talking to organizations I advocate Perforce over either)
-adam
Well said Adam. In fact sub version has a strong development plan & used by many companies as an alternate to Perforce (Most trusted version ctrl system)....We use Sub version for our projects. Nowadays most of the IDE’s support both subversion / cvs…and subversion leads..
