I thought this had to be a common problem, but I was not able to find an easy solution. The problem is, we are working with multiple people on developing a website, without any version control involved. Which leads to obvious problems with conflicting edits and someone messing up the whole site with no simple way to recover. Currently some work with Filezila + Notepad++ directly downloading, additing and uploading the files. Others work with Netbeans on their local copy and upload the files automatically when saving.
What I would like to do now is intruduce a version control system that still lets everyone work on the live system, but checks for conflicts and allows to rollback files to previous versions.
I tried to set up GIT with a post-receive hook that copies everything to the webroot, but failed in doing so. Besides I think SVN might be a better solution because everyone has just to checkout/commit instead of pull/commit/push.
- Is it possible to set up GIT/SVN the way I like to?
- Is there a better solution?
