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I've been using the Force.com IDE for my development, but I'm reading, and experiencing, that many people have huge issues trying to use version control with that as well.
For one person, SVN works fine, or Git, but I work on a team. Importing SVN causes a nightmare of dependancies and XML issues to work through, and Git doesn't even save to salesforce when you use eclipse's GIT functions, so nothing you imported actually went to the server.
I really like using Eclipse, but Git is more important for our team, and I'm reaching out to ask if anyone has another way to develop on force.com that can use Git, or has gotten Eclipse and Git to play nice with salesforce?
Thanks.
Mac or PC? There are some TextMate bundles for the Mac, you might try MavensMate:
https://github.com/joeferraro/MavensMate
On PC, there's not much alternatives at the moment - though I'd be curious to see what it would take to properly integrate Sublime.
You also might check out BrainEngine: http://www.brainengine.net/ which is a cloud based tool.
Specifically w/ Eclipse and git - is the problem mostly with getting a local copy which isn't deployed? I'm guessing that's causing a situation where the local version is updated, but Eclipse doesn't know what was updated - so you're left trying to guess or deploy everything?