I have a question, the answer isn't really hard technically, but I am more looking for the experience of most advanced programmers here.

So like many noobs, I am doing my version control in the crappiest way, which is to copy paste my project directory and rename it with the current date/time. You will agree that it's a quite limited solution :P

I decided to learn version control system(s), but I am facing many choice, and I would like to know what are the best for your points of view ?

  • Using Xcode integrated version control (git or anything else), with organizer, cloning, commits from xcode etc. I mean totally or almost controlled by Xcode ?
  • Ignoring Xcode letting him think there no version control and doing it myself in command line ?
  • A merge of the two above ? How ?

And then :

  • Using git ? Github is very popular and powerful, but you must learn git, and learn it hard.
  • Mercurial ? It seems more friendly.
  • Something else ?

It would be priceless to have some feedbacks about more experienced people, so that me and many others I hope can choose their paths when facing the VCS wall :-)

Thanks a lot !!!

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