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[–] jlothamer 1 points 5 hours ago

Git here. Subversion for a while before that. And source safe, or as I like to say source "safe", before that.

But maybe a better question would be, what source control hosting site (if any) do you use? And do any of them not forcibly use your code to train their AI?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Git at work.

Mercurial for my own stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

Perforce when I was doing it professionally but now for hobby just github desktop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I've been trying out Jujutsu recently.

It's compatible with git repos. The workflow takes a little while to get used to but can be nicer to work with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Git for pleasure, Perforce for dayjob

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Project.py

Project-v2.py

Project-v2-done.py

Project-v2.1-FINAL.py

Project-v3-FINAL-FINAL.py

Project-USE THIS ONE!.py

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Hahahaha, I know what you mean

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[–] bignose 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Magit, which is the best Git porcelain around. Git, because it has an unparalleled free-software ecosystem of developer tools that work with it.

Why is Git's free-software ecosystem so much better than all the other VCSen?

Largely because of marketing (the maker of Linux made this! hey look, GitHub!), but also because it has a solid internal data model that quickly proved to experts that it is fast and flexible and reliable.

Git's command-line interface is atrocious compared to contemporary DVCSen. This was seen originally as no problem because Git developers intentionally released it as the “plumbing” for a VCS, intending that other motivated projects would create various VCS “porcelain” for various user audiences. https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Plumbing-and-Porcelain The interface with sensible operations and coherent interface language, resides in that “porcelain”, which the Git developers explicitly said they were not focussed on creating.

But, of course, the “plumbing” command line interface itself immediately became the primary way people were told to use Git, and the “porcelain” applications had much slower development and nowhere near the universal recognition of Git. So either people didn't learn Git (learning only a couple of operations in a web app, for example), or to learn Git they were required to use the dreadful user-hostile default “plumbing” commands. It became cemented as the primary way to learn Git for many years.

I was a holdout with Bazaar VCS for quite a while, because its command-line interface dealt in coherent user-facing language and consistent commands and options. It was deliberately designed to first have a good command-line UI, and make a solid DVCS under that. Which it did, quite well; but it was no match for the market forces behind Git.

Well, eventually I found that Magit is the best porcelain for Git, and now I have my favourite VCS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Upvoted for bazaar. Even before git existed bzr and qbzr on windows were more user friendly than git with any gui is now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

If it weren't for magit, I'd probably STILL be using hg.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I often use RCS because it is (until recently?) built in to the distribution, and a quick "ci -l foo" is in every way superior to "cp foo foo.save" without having a bunch of the housework required to support git.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I don't use version control.

just kiddingI use git.

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Git with Fork as a client.

[–] Kissaki 1 points 1 day ago

Git / TortoiseGit

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I used to use the OpenVMS file system for informal version control, while I was developing something and before it was ready to be committed to the repository.