Can anyone suggest a cross-platform source control system

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Hi,

Can anyone suggest a free or relatively inexpensive source control system for 1-3 devs, which will work cross-platform between Windows and OSX?

I've been looking at Mecurial, which claims to be free for up to 5 devs, but I am unclear about how it works. It appears to be a client-client system, which is appealing because it means we don't have to rely on and pay for some remote hosting somewhere, but how do the clients communicate? I am guessing (perhaps wrongly) that each client will need a static IP and will need a port opening in the firewall.

Any advice or recommendations very much appreciated.

Kind wishes ~ Patrick

Posted 17-Mar-15 7:09am

Patrick Skelton

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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter · Answer 1 · 2015-03-17T07:57:00

Solution 1

Bitbucket[^] is a git repository and has Windows and OSX client too...

Posted 17-Mar-15 7:57am

Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 2 · 2015-03-17T10:40:00

Please see this my past answer and answers referenced there: The associated source control plug-in is not installed or could not be intiialized[^].

Yes, revision control system has to be cross-platform and also open-source.

Also, it's not a problem to have one which is light-weight, reliable, widely used, well supportable and based on compatible storage. I suggest you consider Subversion, git, Mercury.

See also:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_revision_control_software[^],
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revision_control[^].

—SA