Origa.me

Wow, I cannot believe I've been doing version management manually as long as I have. This whole subversion thing has really opened my eyes in the past 48 hours. I've actually migrated all of my active code to it already - it's so easy!

As soon as I get enough free time I'm going to book in a day to backup and import all of our hosted sites. No more live editing - I'll just "snv update" for the relevant folder, relink the public_html directory on our test server to the local copy, switch on port forwarding on the firewall (for our clients to monitor changes) and ... Bingo! I suppose the next step will be finding a local<-->FTP mirroring tool.

My daily life just became a little bit safer and easier. Some GUI tools to try if you're playing with Subversion:

Mac OSX

ZigVersion (not open source, but I like it); svnX

Windows

Tortoise SVN

Linux

[switches from Mac to Linux mode] don't be such a girl - use the command line

[UPDATE] These days, I'm using bazaar-vcs.  Similar to svn command-wise, but can run without having to set up the server process.  Loving it!