Re: Version Control Software

On Fri, 27 May 2005 19:32:14 +0100, Brandon J. Van Every <mylastnameruntogether@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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.

Apart from the repository corruptions, which I have only experienced two or three times (but that's two or three more than CVS), my biggest gripes with SourceSafe are that it's almost impossible to use remotely (even with a VPN over a fast connection) and the client only runs on Windows. Even on a LAN it's slow, because browsing the project tree in order to check out a single file involves a network access for every click. Over the Internet this is a killer. Also, the explicit check-out model can be restrictive (even if there is only one developer on the team).

Dan.

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