Adding version control to an existing project

Question

I am working on a project that has grown to a decent size, and I am the only developer. We currently don\'t use any version control, but I definitely need to start.

Answer 1

I'm more familiar with Perforce than subversion, but putting a project under version control is not at all hard.

Once you've installed and got your version control software running, clean out your code directory of everything that isn't a source (for instance, run 'make clean'). Then use just use the command to add new files to your repository, recursively. Follow that by a submit, and you are done. I recommend checking out onto a different machine and building at least once to make sure you have everything you need to build.

As for deploying onto servers, that's not really a version control problem. You would typically either put that into your build system (i.e. 'make testinstall', 'make install') or just write shell scripts.