Collaboration tool?

Unity Engine
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Hey, and let me start with apologizing if there’s already such a thread, I haven’t found it and would be greatful to get it linked here!

I need a convenient collaboration tool which would help me share my unity project with other team members, have a versioning system which doesn’t mistreat the binary files. Really great if it also had a user friendly interface, so we don’t need to spend half the time learning to handle it. Is there such a good, free, tool you’d recommend? What do you use to work around this problem?

Thanks
Kweiko

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svn or mercurial with some big files mod.

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Last time I tried svn, it just messed up with reading the library folder, with its binary files and everything. I haven’t tried mercurial though, do you know how convenient it is?
And I don’t know if I can afford putting so much time in modding these systems, although that might be a big win in the long run…

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This thread might have something to do with what you want: http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/69609-Source-Control-w-Free-Unity-ignore-files-(Git-SVN-CVS)

From what I understood, Git works with unity projects if you follow the ignore rules he shows there.

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Both svn and mercurial are proffesional tools. Don’t forget to turn on external versioning in project setup.

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Thanks for the link, vortex!

Ok I gave it (svn) another chance and found much more than I had seen before. I’ll try to sort things out better but, last time I used TortoiseSVN, and I don’t know if I’m mixing things up now but I understood it as being a CVS for showing the SVN, is that correct? And are there other CVS’s you’d recommend? I’ll take a look at that Git, I think it’s a CVS as well…

Thanks
/Kweiko

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Tortoise SVN works great. Set the version control setting in the editor settings so metadata gets written to assets folder and make sure to use the right click context menu to ignore the subfolders in the library folder then it should work fine.