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Offline source control

Asked 2008-12-15T17:14:12.487
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I'm about to start a project where programmers will be contributing from their homes (much like stackoverflow was built)

I want to use some centralized source control, but I don't want it to require the programmers to be online, and the server may come offline from time to time (as at first it'll probably be my desktop machine)

I think I remember Jeff talking about this in some podcast, but I don't remember which one.

Is there a source control tool that works perhaps asynchronically by e-mail? Programmers could connect to download the latest version, and the checkin process would be sending files to an email account for example

Does such a thing exist?

EDIT: Sorry, I forgot to say that I'll be working with .NET (Visual Studio 2008)

It'd be great if it could be integrated into this environment... does GIT (suggested below) support that?

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git is basically built with this scenario as one of the major requirements.

Others support it as well, they usually go under the name of "distributed version control system".

answered 2008-12-15T17:17:56.597

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