Ask HN: Version control for PHP?

If you must use Windows, Mercurial is known to be more Windows-friendly than Git while maintaining many/most of its benefits (and has very similar command syntax). It's written in Python and so works beautifully on Windows, OSX and Linux...

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Tutorial is as good a place to start as any (or see http://mercurial.selenic.com/guide/) for pointers to some tutorials...

Also, a suggestion - don't go anywhere near SVN. You'll thank us in the long run... :)

I use Subversion because it was the system used at my job, but I also used Git for personal projects ant had no problems with either. I think Subversion is a bit more "Windows-friendly" and there are plugins for most IDE's, but Git is very powerful.

Git. Although I don't know how it performs on windows. OS X and Linux is just fine.

To give you a better answer please provide information about version control knowledge, such as "Did you ever use a VCS?", "What did you use before?".

We have never used version control before, we literally have no idea what we are doing. Any help?

Git should work just fine.