Re: Version Control Software

Brandon J. Van Every schrieb:

> Daniel Dyer wrote:
>
>> "Visual SourceSafe? It would be safer to print out all your code, run
>> it through a shredder, and set it on fire."
>
> In fairness, from 1996..1998 we used VSS 5.0 at DEC Commodity Graphics
> for 3D device driver development, with a team of 7..11 people. That's a
> relatively small project, and we never had any problems. I've heard
> many horror stories about VSS's reliability over the years, but I
> suspect these are from larger projects. I think worrying about such
> issues for a solo project is seriously overthinking the issues. VSS
> integrates very well into the Visual Studio environment. On the other
> hand, Perforce is free for a 2-user license, has equal ease of use, and
> is reknowned for its robustness. If I were still doing Visual Studio
> development I'd be doing that.
>
> As it is, I intend to try Subversion. It's clearly better than CVS by
> all accounts, although I couldn't tell you in what ways. I'm not sure
> if integration with things such as Eclipse is one of the ways.

Subversion for Eclipse = Subclipse ( http://subclipse.tigris.org/ )
I use it and it is really great. With JavaSVN installed it even works
perfect with svn+ssh repositories (better than TortoiseSVN).

For more information about the different systems look at this page:
http://better-scm.berlios.de/comparison/comparison.html
It contains a detailed comparison between 16 common version control systems
(including CVS, SVN and VSS).

Jan
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