Version control systems and their (dis)advantages?

[Shoozza]

Because all developers are hiding themselves behind their firewalls and no one wants to post something here in the dev corner I'll try to get you back to post at this topic

Well you may have heard about Version control systems like SVN, Git, CVS, Bazaar, Performance, etc.. I want to know which one you use and why, what their (dis)advantages are and for which type of project which version control system suits best.

Discuss!

[zakath]

cvs or svn imho as they have great 3rd party tools like tortoisecvs/svn , good integration into most programs because in the end its all about usability.

[jettlarue]

Svn, I have used Git but do not remember. I really do not know all of the benefits and negatives but Svn is quite popular(terrible reason I know) and extremely easy to use and update folders.

[jrgp]

Git was made for handling large complex projects very quickly and for that it works great (Linux Kernel, Wine, and several other huge projects use it). The only downside to it is that it pretty much only runs on Linux and BSD, since it's a bunch of command line C apps with Bash shell scripts wrapped around them. Getting it to work on Windows using Cygwin might work though.

[CheeSeMan.]

hmm i have only ever used SVN and its always been great for me

[DorkeyDear]

There's always the option for home-made ones, don't forget. But depending on what you need, this may be too hard or take too much time.