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hey guys!

Just a general question i had. I have a small time team in the makes (not including me) 2 C++ devs, and 1 PhP dev. now ive never worked with a team before, but we have all had the same question: How do we work on the same project from different computers? i could have the other PhP Dev write up a page, email it to me or something and i put it in my code. is that how its normally done?

Enter the mighty Subversion. It is what is known as a version control system (although it has about 10 other equivalent names and acronyms). It allows individuals to "check-out" parts of code, work on it, submit it, and then admins can merge it into the main codebase if it is stable (there are many other setups, but having a human gatekeeper is common). It also keeps track of old versions to get rid of the "oh crap I saved a version with recursive bugs over my functioning version".

As for learning how to use it, here is a free online ebook to get you started.

Ahh thank you oh so much.

Ive had a lot of time programming, not really good in any one, just really know up to OOP in a few, and i thought it was a shame i could never work with any of my friends.

anybody know any good ones? easy to use?

Do you mean programming languages? Some of the easier languages to pick up and learn are PHP, C#, Visual Basic.NET, Java, Python, Delphi, and I am sure others but I can't think of them right now

No i mean the version control programs :p

Subversion It is the industry standard, and easy enough to use with the ebook I linked.

On the GameDev stack exchange we have had a running discussion about this.

http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questi ... -solutions

I recommend you read it.

I don't know if this is exactly what your looking for, but Drop Box is a tool than any Indi team, in my opinion, NEEDS in order to work together on a project.