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Choosing a Tool

If you want to contribute to an existing project, you don't really have any choice - you will have to use the tool that has been chosen by the initial development team. If you are starting your own project, the choice will depend on the breadth of your project. If it's a project with only a few contributors, which will remain private and for which you would simply like to have a history of all the modifications, a first generation tool like SVN can be sufficient. If your project is larger, with external collaborators, you should consider a second generation tool like Git or Mercurial.