Re: How to install source safe

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Andy wrote:
On May 2, 4:39 am, "Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <sk...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's not been discontinued, but unless you absolutely *have* to use
it, I'd recommend a different source control system. Personally I
really like Subversion, which is free and *much* nicer than VSS in my
view. Having said that, I believe that VSS has improved since I last
used it. It would have to have improved beyond recognition to be
better than Subversion though...

VSS improvements are new graphics, and a web service over which you
can work through the internet. Beyond that, nothing has changed, and
it's as unreliable as ever.

I like SourceGear's Vault. Its not free (unless you only need one
user), is designed to be a replacement for VSS and so works in much
the same way, and it stores it's data in MS Sql server, which I prefer
over using the file system. I don't know how SVN does it, but I think
it works on the FS, which may or may not be transactional, and I don't
know if or how SVN would handle only part of the changes being
committed.

SQL Server, as all databases, ultimately deals with files as well.

Subversion does indeed use files to hold revisions, but it is built to be atomical in the sense that a partial commit (ie. one being interrupted) is not committed at all and does not show up in the revision list for the repository.

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