Re: Version control

From: Gerrit Beuze (gerrit[at]modelmaker[dot]demon[dot]nl)
Date: 08/31/04 

Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 20:53:07 +0200

Been a Visual Source Safe users for many years, happy most of the time.
But as soon as there's a good conversion tool from VSS to Subversion
I'll be using Subversion. Free and much better imo,
Subversion lots of things better than VSS and is free

Gerrit Beuze
ModelMaker Tools

"Peter Morris" <pete@removethis.droopyeyes.com> wrote in message news:41344a76$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Hi all
>
> I'd like to know what you guys use for a version control application? I'm
> not experienced as a VC administrator, so far only as a user, so I have no
> experience beyond check in / check out.

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