Re: Alternatives to SourceSafe?
- From: "Mike {0A6FF490-CF84-4d78-BD85-FF011A0C310C}" <TechGuy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 08:36:26 -0700 (PDT)
I've got SubVersion installed on my server and ANKH installed in
Visual Studio 2008. Install was in fact very easy for both. It does
indeed have checking out capability (they call it "locking"). I think
I saw on the site that it was introduced in v1.2.
Initial reaction: Looks like it may be what I need! (not 100% sure
yet, but right now, looks like better than 90% chance it'll be my
final solution).
Thanks Charles!
Just one more thing:
Does anyone know how to force a lock when Visual Studio edits a file
(like the way Visual Studio will check out a file from VSS on edit)?
Thanks!
On Mar 6, 1:19 pm, Charles Calvert <cb...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:54:51 -0800 (PST), "Mike
{0A6FF490-CF84-4d78-BD85-FF011A0C310C}" <Tech...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote in
<a6f4ac2b-0c90-4fa8-b6fb-985a58d3a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
These links appear to be dead:
http://subversion.tigris.org/
http://ankhsvn.open.collab.net/
I just checked and they're working for me. I also verified them
before posting my original response. Don't know what the problem
might be.
Subversion was specifically what I had in mind when coming up with the
following requirements:
2. Must be able to check files out of repository, blocking others
from editing them until I check them in.
8. Not a huge task to install, configure, and maintain.
When I used it several years ago,
You probably already know this, but Subversion has grown in popularity
in recent years and had a corresponding increase in development
effort.
it was a huge pain trying to configure it for blocking checkouts
and it never worked right.
I haven't tried to do this, so I don't know how hard it is with the
current version. You can ask in a Subversion group, of course.
This one is absolutely critical or the product is useless for
me. :( I don't recall all the details of getting it installed
and configured, but it seems like I had a lot of trouble (maybe
I'm recalling the pearl script conversion problems). Anyway,
I eventually gave up on it.
I'm running it on Linux, not Windows, but it does come with an
installer. As for configuration, I've had no real problems. I had to
spend a little time understanding the standard Subversion structure
and reading the documentation on the admin tool, but after that it was
easy.
I did get VSS working over HTTPS, but it's ssslllooowww AND buggy...
The client breaks on large checkins and the server... Well, I have to
keep using terminal server to remote control the server and restart
the HTTPS process. Since I've got a commercial web server running on
it, it's not a good thing to keep resetting that service... I'm
effectively emptying out my customers' checkout carts!! ;) Anyway,
this is why I'm looking for something else.
I don't blame you. VSS is a real pain - so much that almost any other
source control system is better in a lot of ways.
I'll give SubVersion another spin. Hopefully it's been improved
(significantly) since I used it last. Thanks for the thorough
responses.
You're welcome.
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Charles Calvert | Software Design/Development
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