Source control recs
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I also recommend the Visual SVN plugin for Visual Studio. It's cheap, and works very well. That together with the free Tortoise SVN client, and you have a very nice setup. The Visual SVN guys also maintain a free server version of Subversion. You don't have to go through the hassle of getting apache to play nicely with subversion. Just install and click a few buttons, and you have a SVN server ready to go. See here http://www.visualsvn.com/[^]
Jörgen Sigvardsson wrote:
The Visual SVN guys also maintain a free server version of Subversion. You don't have to go through the hassle of getting apache to play nicely with subversion. Just install and click a few buttons, and you have a SVN server ready to go.
It rocks. I use it for my personal projects. Highly recommended. Very easy to use.
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Here is the situation: A small group of devs (3) have been maintaining a couple of small C++ apps and one large-ish VB6 desktop app for several years using no source control system. They have been tasked with a complete re-write of the VB app with major additions to the product. It remains a desktop app. They will likely use VS2005 or VS2008 and code in C#. Also the team will likely expand to 5 or 6. The company's IT department is loathe to use free open source software on the servers sighting a fear of "no support". They cannot be reasoned with. What do you folks recommend for a reasonably priced, well supported and well rounded solution for source / revision control? TIA
Take a look at SourceGear Vault[^].
Jon Sagara Some see the glass as half-empty, some see the glass as half-full. I see the glass as too big. -- George Carlin .NET Blog | Personal Blog | Articles
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I know you said no open source but... ...your IT guys need to get clued up. Subversion is by far the best source control system around and in the years that we've been using it we've never needed any support. There's more than enough online documentation for most issues and the excellent usability/stability/features make it the number one choice in my opinion. Fight for it, you won't regret it!
C h r i s C h a m b e r s wrote:
Subversion is by far the best source control system around
Now, that's a slight exagaration. It is not bad, especially for a small team, but far from "the best around".
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Here is the situation: A small group of devs (3) have been maintaining a couple of small C++ apps and one large-ish VB6 desktop app for several years using no source control system. They have been tasked with a complete re-write of the VB app with major additions to the product. It remains a desktop app. They will likely use VS2005 or VS2008 and code in C#. Also the team will likely expand to 5 or 6. The company's IT department is loathe to use free open source software on the servers sighting a fear of "no support". They cannot be reasoned with. What do you folks recommend for a reasonably priced, well supported and well rounded solution for source / revision control? TIA
Mike Mullikin wrote:
he company's IT department is loathe to use free open source software on the servers sighting a fear of "no support".
Absurd. As if the support on a commercial product is worth anything. :rolleyes: Marc
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I totally disagree. When doing an extensive review, Subversion failed miserably. At one point, we ended up with a corrupt source tree. One engineer using it lost history out of blue. It has other problems as well with tracking ownership of files.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
Joe Woodbury wrote:
At one point, we ended up with a corrupt source tree.
You didn't set it to use the old database format which should not be used, under any circumstances, on a network share? That combo produces side effects like what you mention. It's also marked in bold and red in the documentation... :)
-- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit
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Mike Mullikin wrote:
he company's IT department is loathe to use free open source software on the servers sighting a fear of "no support".
Absurd. As if the support on a commercial product is worth anything. :rolleyes: Marc
Marc Clifton wrote:
As if the support on a commercial product is worth anything.
Well it is the product is from oh, never mind. :doh:
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Take a look at SourceGear Vault[^].
Jon Sagara Some see the glass as half-empty, some see the glass as half-full. I see the glass as too big. -- George Carlin .NET Blog | Personal Blog | Articles
Vault is what I would recommend as well. Easy to use, doesn't cost much, and, well....just pretty nice :)
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I totally disagree. When doing an extensive review, Subversion failed miserably. At one point, we ended up with a corrupt source tree. One engineer using it lost history out of blue. It has other problems as well with tracking ownership of files.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
I can't believe that an extensive review would find that Subversion failed miserably as a version control system. I hate to say it but the problems you saw must have been due to operator error.