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more on version controlStill checking to look at the recent advances in source control management (SCM) systems. I began looking about two months ago and at that time I saw BitKeeper and subversion. Then Chris Bailey from CodeIntensity and Dylan both recommended Perforce. So now I've downloaded both Perforce and Bitkeeper. Installed Perforce, created a repository, etc. Still not installed BitKeeper. Will post impressions of both systems once I've given them a workout, which is not so hard since I already have a source structure that is reasonably complex. Posted by diego on March 31 2003 at 10:52 AM Comments (please see the comments & trackback policy).
Hmm, coming from an MS background I know and, more or less, understand VSS. But that costs if you can't afford a sufficiently serious MSDN sub (I can) so I too have looked. I've been somewhat blinkered by the desire for IDE integration but think I'm going to have to give up on that )-: Perforce is seriously not cheap (even by the heady standards of version control software...) I might have taken a punt on subversion if a) I hadn't quite given up on IDE integration and b) I hadn't discovered that I already have CVS on my server (!) CVS... well there is a certain weight of argument and an abundance of tools available across several platforms. Time will tell... Murph Posted by: Murph at March 31, 2003 12:45 PMFrom what I've heard about VSS it is just horrible. I have never worked with it myself, but a friend of mine who was contracted to MS a few times told me how it works, how there is no concept of a trunk/HEAD, and other horror stories and I just sat there in stunned awe. Again, never used it myself, but I have been a CVS user for a while now, it's free, it works, it's the "industry" standard in the area that I work in (OSS/perl/database/etc). The problem with it is the lack of nice integration with non-linux/open source apps. I did find a nice article on getting it to work in visual studio.net: http://ufies.org/archives/000474.html#000474 Posted by: Arcterex at March 31, 2003 5:54 PMHi, Rajesh Posted by: Rajesh Honnawarkar at April 1, 2003 4:13 AMHmm, the "nice" article on integrating CVS with VS.NET basically says that it may not work (read the comments). However: Offers a small amount of hope... Posted by: Murph at April 1, 2003 8:35 AMWell, it may say that, but I did get it to work for me, at least for testing. I don't do much VS.net work so I can't say if it's solid enough for production work. Just relating my own experience. Posted by: Arcterex at April 1, 2003 5:51 PMCopyright © Diego Doval 2002-2007.
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