Simple and reliable free distributed revision control?

[John lioe]

I am starting a new web application with some friends but I want to use a revision control instead of the old ways which were very inefficient.
However, I want a solution that is of a low learning curve and is reliable. Anyone have any good suggestions?

Thanks.

[danharibo]

Git

[Overv]

Git, just take 20 minutes to learn it and you'll be fine, really.

[John lioe]

But what about
SVN is that any good?

[danharibo]

[QUOTE=John lioe;33602800]But what about
SVN is that any good?[/QUOTE]

No because it's not distributed.

[robmaister12]

git or mercurial (Hg)

github is good for git. If you want something private, you'll have to pay for it or set up your own server.

The server is just a machine that's running SSH and has an account using /usr/bin/git-shell instead of /bin/bash or whatever your default terminal is.

If you actually want to use it in a distributed way, you'll have to have all your friends open port 22 and run sshd, giving an account access to the repository.

[editline]6th December 2011[/editline]

and SVN is centralized, you'll have to set up a server.

[Jookia]

With Git you can pack up your repo and email them to people so they can pull from them locally. It's nice.

I don't know about Mercurial but apparently it's a little easier to set up a server that people can pull from.

[John lioe]

Thanks alot guys

[NorthernGate]

I love mercurial, mostly because it integrated into VS so easily, and was the first distribution software I ever got to run without any effort or learning on my part. BitBucket rocks.

[pollyzoid]

Also voicing in for git or mercurial (hg). I suggest BitBucket if you need a remote repository, it supports both git and hg.