Eighteen months ago there was some discussion about VCS that people were using with Therion. We have two largish projects and soon to be three people working on their own copies of the files that every now and again I try to merge into a coherent dataset.

I suspect it’s well passed the time where we should have been using a VCS, but you know how it is.  Sometimes it seems easier to run along pushing a bicycle than it is to take the time to choose an appropriate one, and hen learn to ride it.

A few VCS options were mentioned, including bazaar http://bazaar-vcs.org/en/  and subversion http://subversion.tigris.org/

In an effort to get more local people involved and ease the learning curve for Therion newcomers I’m thinking that putting all our data on a web page and allowing those working on it to have ftp access.  Bearing in mind that I have no experience with any type of automated version control (am downloading bazaar as I write this) is there any advice out there?

Best VCS application to use?

Are ease of use for learner computer users, ftp, Therion and VCS mutually exclusive?  My (sheltered) experience with ftp so far is that it is no more complex than using files on a local disk.  Is this a good route or should I try another path?

Any feedback or advice welcomed.

Cheers

Bruce