Ask HN: Which versioning system to learn on?

Subversion is the lowest common denominator and you'll end up using it sooner or later. You might as well learn it even if you expect to move to a DVCS later on.

Git.

http://github.com/guides/home

If you're looking for a really easy to follow guide to get everything installed quickly then try http://www.geocities.com/arhuaco/doc/subversion/apache-subve...

Subversion also has a really nice Windows client in TortoiseSVN if that's any use to you.

Start with mercurial.

http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/

So I'm told to start with the following:

- Subversion - RCS - CVS - Git - Subversion - Mercurial - Git

I'm seeing subversion as the most upvoted, I'll give that a go (starting Wednesday so there's still time to change).

RCS: http://www.gnu.org/software/rcs/

I think it is better to learn http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Versions_System

poke around the web say github or bitbucket and find a place that will give you a small free private repo and use what they offer to test the waters.