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    +1 for commit messages; they are like comments that can't get outdated because they're tied to the version of the code when they were actually applicable. To understand your old code, it's easier to look through the history of the project (if changes are committed at a reasonable granularity) than to read outdated comments. Commented Jul 6, 2018 at 22:00
  • Subversion, git, and Mercurial aren't fungible. I'd strongly advocate using Git (or Mercurial) with a local repository over Subversion. With a solo coder, Subversion's flaws are less of an issue but it's not a great tool for collaborative development and that may potentially happen in research Commented Jul 9, 2018 at 5:24
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    @mcottle, I personally prefer git but I didn't think this was the right place to go into details about the differences, especially as the choice is one of the active religious wars. Better to encourage OP to use something than to scare them away from the area, and the decision isn't permanent in any case. Commented Jul 9, 2018 at 6:26