[AccessD] Source Code Control

Yes, the behavior is different is you use the add-in.  The shop I work
in uses SourceSafe, so I'm not likely to switch to something else.  I'm
not sure I would like creating multiple stems from a base file.  Sounds
to me like an even better way to get versions screwed up.  At least the
way we have SourceSafe set up, only one person can have an object
checked out at a time, and all project that use that object will get the
same version when it's checked back in.  If we've branched it for a
particular project, then the changes don't get applied to that version.
Works for us, and it works nicely with VS.Net, so we're happy.

Charlotte Foust


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Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 11:12 AM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Source Code Control


On 1/17/06, Charlotte Foust <cfoust at infostatsystems.com> wrote:
> The sourcesafe handling of Access is completely different from Word 
> because unless you try to add it from outside, as you do with other 
> application files.  I've heard all the horror stories about 
> sourcesafe, but for many, if not most, independent developers, it is 
> the cheapest alternative because it comes with the ODE, and I 
> personally have not seen the corruption problems more than once in the

> years I've worked with it.  In that case, that's what backups were 
> for. <g>

I'm confused, so it only allows diff'ing if you have the plug-in to
Access, but if you add it from explorer it still acts like a binary
file?

You really should try out SubVersion. I like it ALOT and it's really
easy to create branches and other things for multiple development stems
from one base file.

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Josh McFarlane
"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by
understanding." -Albert Einstein
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