

Ask HN: Good introductory article on source control - jasonkester

I've recently joined a new project owned by a developer who has never used source control.  I've suggested moving the project onto Subversion, but am starting to get the first signs of pushback.<p>I think we're still at the "what's in it for me" stage here, and I'm pretty sure that I'd blunder any attempt at direct advocacy, so I'd rather simply forward a URL that lays out the case for using version control and let this developer reach his own conclusions.<p>I've been looking around, but all the intro SVN docs I've found seem to give a brief single paragraph intro to SCC before diving into either how to set up a repository, or "why CVS sucks and SVN is awesome."  Can anybody recommend anything good?<p>(I'll send across the Joel Test in due time, but I think we might need to do some softening up first...)
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ananthrk
Series of articles written by Eric Sink
<http://www.ericsink.com/scm/source_control.html>

He is also currently working a book on the same topic. A lot of his recent
articles are about his experiments with various version control systems and
are worth a look.

