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Skriven 2005-04-19 15:23:22 av Gregg N (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: SCM recomends
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From: "Gregg N" <invalid@invalid.invalid>

Adam wrote:
> Ye olde CVS
> Subversion
> Visual Source Safe

Visual Source Safe is easy to use, but it does not handle complicated branching
or merging requirements well. It is also not client/server based, so the
repository is at the mercy of each individual development computer reading from
or writing to it. There have been reports of VSS data corruption, no doubt due
to this arrangement. We used it for a couple of years without any problem,
however.

CVS and Subversion are client/server based, and are better than VSS at managing
branching and merging, but neither one currently supports merge tracking
whereby the tool keeps track of what merges you have already applied.

> Any others which should be on the list?

We have decided to switch to Perforce (www.perforce.com). Perforce is
cross-platform (both server and client) and has full branch and merge support.
It also supports change sets (so your check-ins can be associated with a
particular issue or feature) and atomic check-ins (with which a set of files
gets checked in all or nothing). It also has a proxy server to support
development at remote sites. You can download an evaluation version for
Windows, Linux, etc. from their web site. It is fully functional except that it
only supports two users.

If you want a free tool, based on what I've read, I would choose subversion
over CVS. It was designed as a replacement for CVS, and supports the same
development models ias CVS. It also adds a few capabilities that were missing
from CVS (I think renames and deletions). There are GUI front-ends that make it
easy to use, and integrate it with Windows Explorer. There is also GNU Arch,
which is a distributed system I think like BitKeeper is, but I think it runs
(well) only on Linux.

There are other expensive, more sophisticated tools such as ClearCase and
BitKeeper.

Gregg

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