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We're starting to work on a SharePoint project on the company I work and we're currently analysing the best versioning tool to work with that.

We really needed to do a "real" version control on this project because its pretty big and we do not want to lose control over it.

The first option would be a CVS-like (eg raw cvs or svn, etc) that is free, but I understand this approach could give us some trouble, but is it impossible to use a tool like that?

On the other side we have TFS. Is it too hard to install / configure to have everything running? We need to do both frontend and backend (including database) versioning, can TFS do that?

Well, I think thats the first questions of many here, and sorry if this was asked before, I just couldnt find it.

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I don't believe that the fact that this is a SharePoint project effects your source control tool decision AT ALL so you should probably ask this somewhere else like programmers.stackexchange.com - but you will get an almost apple v android style debate. – Ryan Sep 14 '12 at 9:30

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We use SVN here and we don't have any problems. We're primarily a SharePoint shop, but we do other engagements and custom software too, all of which are on SVN.

We use the AnkhSVN plugin for Visual Studio 2010.

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but what about binaries Sharepoint generates? and for the database portion? thanks! – Gustavo Ramos Sep 13 '12 at 18:44
Your solution binaries will be in source control. The projects will be in source control as well so you can always recreate the binaries from a specific version if you want. And database versioning? Just use backups... – rjcup3 Sep 13 '12 at 18:46
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We use SVN and AnkhSVN at work same as @rjcup3, but for my private SharePoint projects I use git and that works quite well. There is an extensions for VS as well, but the Git Bash works quite well for me.

I have a dream of setting up Gitorious at work, as I know others that use it with great success.

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