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That's it, I'm ditching CVS!

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  • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

    Subversion is really slick! Branching, merging, versioning, etc, just became a whole lot easier. I'm switching Real Soon NowTM. :cool: If you haven't checked out Subversion yet, do. Don't forget TortoiseSVN (A shell extension which puts its cousin TortoiseCVS into shame!).

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    Marc Clifton
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    Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:

    Subversion is really slick!

    Ah, phooey. I like CVS. I guess the next project I'll try Subversion. I just couldn't get my head wrapped around their suggested setup. Marc

    Thyme In The Country

    People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
    There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
    People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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    • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

      Subversion is really slick! Branching, merging, versioning, etc, just became a whole lot easier. I'm switching Real Soon NowTM. :cool: If you haven't checked out Subversion yet, do. Don't forget TortoiseSVN (A shell extension which puts its cousin TortoiseCVS into shame!).

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      Nemanja Trifunovic
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      Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:

      If you haven't checked out Subversion yet, do. Don't forget TortoiseSVN

      Yep, SVN is not bad, although not perfect either. As for Tortoise, I use it only very rarely, since I mostly develop on Linux these days. Actually, svn from command line is pretty good once you get used to it.


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      • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

        Subversion is really slick! Branching, merging, versioning, etc, just became a whole lot easier. I'm switching Real Soon NowTM. :cool: If you haven't checked out Subversion yet, do. Don't forget TortoiseSVN (A shell extension which puts its cousin TortoiseCVS into shame!).

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        James Brown
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        A warning to anyone installing tortoiseSvn on Vista - it keeps crashing. Plus it wipes out the themes on the explorer shell menu.


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        • L Lost User

          Just little things like the icons in Explorer not updating correctly, there is a feature that allows you can set default svn properties to be attached to a file when added to the repository. For example we always have svn:eol-style set to LF for cpp files and have checks on the server side so files cant be committed without this. Tortise should set this automatically but it only works about %50 of the time I always use Tortise to work with svn but some of the guys here like to use a combination of the command line tools and Tortise. There have been instances where versions of Tortise have not worked well specific versions of svn dispite the doco claiming that it should work. And of course there's the error you get sometimes that reads something like "Operation failed, please perform a clean-up command". Never worked out why this happens. We also have some commercially sensative stuff and access to this is restricted to the people that actually work on it. The rest of us cant see the change log for these projects and sometimes this makes merging very hard. This is mostly our fault though I think. On the whole its a great tool.

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          m3ntat_
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          We are using Tortoise with CVS at work, 4 person team. I would like some VS 2005 integration if there is it, anyone suggest the best free add in? Also I look at SVN but apparently it's a b1tch to setup on a Windows box for server/client. Any quick dirty installers, tutorials that do the trick? Thanks

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          • M Marc Clifton

            Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:

            Subversion is really slick!

            Ah, phooey. I like CVS. I guess the next project I'll try Subversion. I just couldn't get my head wrapped around their suggested setup. Marc

            Thyme In The Country

            People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
            There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
            People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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            Jorgen Sigvardsson
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            I do/did. Subversion is better. :)

            Marc Clifton wrote:

            I just couldn't get my head wrapped around their suggested setup.

            :~ Apache/http? They have a standalone server (svnserve) now, which can also be installed as a Windows service (since version 1.4).

            -- Verletzen zerfetzen zersetzen zerstören Doch es darf nicht mir gehören Ich muss zerstören

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            • P Paul M Watt

              I hate it too. I have worked at quite a few places that prefer it simply because it is free. I have found it adequate at archiving, but its feature set for identifying changes and such when someone on your team checks in a large number of files and breaks the build is seriously lacking.

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              Leonardo Pessoa
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              And isn't Subversion as free as CVS?

              []'s Harkos --- "Money isn't our god, integrity will free our soul." Cut Throat - Sepultura

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              • D David Wulff

                FYI: The workgroup edition is included in all VS2005 TE MSDN subscriptions. If you don't have one then that's not much use, but it might help someone.


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                Marco Stinger
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                David Wulff wrote:

                FYI: The workgroup edition is included in all VS2005 TE MSDN subscriptions.

                Really ? I've got a brand new MSDN Professional Subst (still waiting for the DVD's) and I 'm not allowed to download the Vs2005 Team Edition (only the Professional one that comes with no Source Control as far as I know). For now I'm a "one man developper" so I don't need any collaboration tool but I could use some versioning (something better than backups ;P) Do I miss the point ?

                Ciao Marco

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                • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

                  Subversion is really slick! Branching, merging, versioning, etc, just became a whole lot easier. I'm switching Real Soon NowTM. :cool: If you haven't checked out Subversion yet, do. Don't forget TortoiseSVN (A shell extension which puts its cousin TortoiseCVS into shame!).

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                  MrEyes
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                  Welcome to the fold A word of warning though: do not ever, even for a second, consider trying to run Ankh (Visual Studio Integrated SVN tool), it is spawn of the seventh gate of hell.

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                  • L Leonardo Pessoa

                    And isn't Subversion as free as CVS?

                    []'s Harkos --- "Money isn't our god, integrity will free our soul." Cut Throat - Sepultura

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                    Lost User
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                    The point is that CVS has stumbled along and at least Subversion has made clear improvements.

                    The tigress is here :-D

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                    • M Marc Clifton

                      Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:

                      Subversion is really slick!

                      Ah, phooey. I like CVS. I guess the next project I'll try Subversion. I just couldn't get my head wrapped around their suggested setup. Marc

                      Thyme In The Country

                      People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
                      There's NO excuse for not commenting your code. -- John Simmons / outlaw programmer
                      People who say that they will refactor their code later to make it "good" don't understand refactoring, nor the art and craft of programming. -- Josh Smith

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                      Lost User
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                      I had two problems with CVS - first it is ok with a few people but as a team grows things get out of sync, the server gets resource leaks etc. and ssecond it is difficult to keep everyone on the same version of tools (esp. the command line tools). Elaine :rose:

                      The tigress is here :-D

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                      • M MrEyes

                        Welcome to the fold A word of warning though: do not ever, even for a second, consider trying to run Ankh (Visual Studio Integrated SVN tool), it is spawn of the seventh gate of hell.

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                        Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                        I didn't plan to. I've never ever liked the idea of having SCM built into the IDE. In my experience, it has always been in my way. I did like WinCVS though. I see there is something called RapidSVN, but unfortunately it doesn't look like it's anywhere near WinCVS featurewise. On the other hand, TortoiseSVN seems mature enough. If everything fails, there's always the command line tools. :) Thanks for the heads up though. Much appreciated!

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                        • M m3ntat_

                          We are using Tortoise with CVS at work, 4 person team. I would like some VS 2005 integration if there is it, anyone suggest the best free add in? Also I look at SVN but apparently it's a b1tch to setup on a Windows box for server/client. Any quick dirty installers, tutorials that do the trick? Thanks

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                          Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                          m3ntat_ wrote:

                          Also I look at SVN but apparently it's a b1tch to setup on a Windows box for server/client. Any quick dirty installers, tutorials that do the trick?

                          Take a look in the TortoiseSVN docs. It's got a chapter on how you install svnserve (the standalone server) as a service. I had no problems installing it on a Windows XP/2003 box. Be sure to take notice of the command line syntax for "SC". The equal sign must be placed like this "SC Argument= value". Notice the extra whitespace after the equal sign and before the value. Other than that, the installation process was straightforward. To create repositories etc, just use TortoiseSVN - works like a charm.

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                          • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

                            Subversion is really slick! Branching, merging, versioning, etc, just became a whole lot easier. I'm switching Real Soon NowTM. :cool: If you haven't checked out Subversion yet, do. Don't forget TortoiseSVN (A shell extension which puts its cousin TortoiseCVS into shame!).

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                            EdDavis_Uk
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                            There's also AnkhSVN - a handy open source VS .NET plugin that allows you to integrate SVN just like VSS. http://ankhsvn.tigris.org/

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                            • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

                              Subversion is really slick! Branching, merging, versioning, etc, just became a whole lot easier. I'm switching Real Soon NowTM. :cool: If you haven't checked out Subversion yet, do. Don't forget TortoiseSVN (A shell extension which puts its cousin TortoiseCVS into shame!).

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                              Nick Parker
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                              Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:

                              I'm switching

                              Welcome to the group. :-) I am curious how your conversion goes from CVS.

                              - Nick Parker Microsoft MVP - Visual C#
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                                About time, CVS is the worst system I've used. Elaine (progressive fluffy tigress)

                                The tigress is here :-D

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                                Nick Parker
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                                Trollslayer wrote:

                                About time, CVS is the worst system I've used.

                                Apparently you've never used VSS.

                                - Nick Parker Microsoft MVP - Visual C#
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                                  Joergen Sigvardsson wrote:

                                  I'm switching

                                  Welcome to the group. :-) I am curious how your conversion goes from CVS.

                                  - Nick Parker Microsoft MVP - Visual C#
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                                  Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                                  RCS just wouln't cope with some of the binary files in my repository. I'm going to ditch the revision history on those files (there aren't any for them basically) by adding them as new files in the new SVN repository. The python script isn't the fastest script in the world. It's been going for 2 hours now, and it's up to revision 812 out of 1299 for one of my CVS modules. I am going to split up my CVS modules into several SVN repositories. I find it ludicrous that files in one project affects the revision of files in totally unrelated projects. It will also cut down on the running time of the cvs2svn script. I anticipate that the conversion will finish at around 18:20 this evening. I suppose I'll have to work from home a little. :)

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                                  • M Marco Stinger

                                    David Wulff wrote:

                                    FYI: The workgroup edition is included in all VS2005 TE MSDN subscriptions.

                                    Really ? I've got a brand new MSDN Professional Subst (still waiting for the DVD's) and I 'm not allowed to download the Vs2005 Team Edition (only the Professional one that comes with no Source Control as far as I know). For now I'm a "one man developper" so I don't need any collaboration tool but I could use some versioning (something better than backups ;P) Do I miss the point ?

                                    Ciao Marco

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                                    David Wulff
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                                    Marco [Stinger] wrote:

                                    and I 'm not allowed to download the Vs2005 Team Edition

                                    You don't have one of the team subscriptions so you won't get it.


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                                    • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

                                      Subversion is really slick! Branching, merging, versioning, etc, just became a whole lot easier. I'm switching Real Soon NowTM. :cool: If you haven't checked out Subversion yet, do. Don't forget TortoiseSVN (A shell extension which puts its cousin TortoiseCVS into shame!).

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                                      shane day
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                                      My team have particularly found SVN great for geographically distributed development efforts. We also like the fact that it sits outside of Visual Studio, meaning Visual Studio doesn't get to stuff things up with its crappy source control integration. (Of course, if you _need_ the source control integration for some unimaginable reason, there are tools out there that integrate SVN with Visual Studio.) I can't recommend SVN highly enough!!

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                                      • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

                                        Subversion is really slick! Branching, merging, versioning, etc, just became a whole lot easier. I'm switching Real Soon NowTM. :cool: If you haven't checked out Subversion yet, do. Don't forget TortoiseSVN (A shell extension which puts its cousin TortoiseCVS into shame!).

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                                        SteveWaNet
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                                        Did you get Tortoise running successfully without having Explorer start crashing? It works great, but I just got to have a working Windows Explorer :/ So for now, I have it uninstalled and just use the command line which is still great, because I love having source control on my home system. Steve

                                        "Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live." - Goethe

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                                          Did you get Tortoise running successfully without having Explorer start crashing? It works great, but I just got to have a working Windows Explorer :/ So for now, I have it uninstalled and just use the command line which is still great, because I love having source control on my home system. Steve

                                          "Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live." - Goethe

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                                          Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                                          Yeah, no problems with Tortoise at all. Perhaps your Windows Explorer is borked?

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