To SVN or not to SVN?

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Originally Posted by nathanww

Hello all,

One of the things that I'm trying to decide about programming this year is whether or not our team is going to use subversion. We're probably talking about 2-3 programmers. In previous years, we haven't used it--but last year the code got nigh-impossible to manage(we had like 7 or 8 projects with names like "Lario Kario final PID") and one situation where someone accidentally downloaded the code for a different robot at a practice day(making one of the chains fall off)

Anyway, I was wondering what experiences people here have had with subversion. None of us has actually used it before--is it difficult to learn? And how much value would it be to a team of this size?

It is not very difficult to learn at all. Version control can be very useful even if you only had a single programmer; in that case it would be used only for versioning and not for merging.

I will personally be advocating that my team use some type of version control this year even though we are using Labview and will not be able to take advantage of merges.

We had a situation last year that it would have been VERY helpful to revert to a previous code version but the new version was saved over the old version.