[AccessD] Source Code Control

> I mean, honestly, it works for a little side project
Josh,

I guess MS uses VSS by themselves ...

I did use VSS in a huge MSVC++ project of my colleague with thouzands of
source files and a half of a hundred projects - it worked well, no problems
at all...

I think most of the "horror stories" about VSS are in the past now.

Yes, I liked SubVersion for the features you describe and because it's open
source...

If there is no need in these SubVersion features then VSS looks good enough
and stable.

Shamil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Josh McFarlane" <darsant at gmail.com>
To: "Access Developers discussion and problem solving"
<accessd at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 7:22 AM
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Source Code Control


> On 1/17/06, Josh McFarlane <darsant at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I haven't used SourceSafe in Access personally, only C++ projects. I
> > find it interesting that they've worked out code to diff Access DBs,
> > but cannot make it compatible with Word for diffing.
> >
> > Granted, everything can be corrupt, but source-safe has a very very
> > bad track record with corruption, even on simple things. I can't find
> > the link now, but once I hit my work computer I'll post it.
> >
> > When it's all said and done, I still prefer a stability and safety
> > over easy integration with Office / Visual Studio.
>
> OK, looked a little more into this, and supposedly if you run their
> analyze.exe tool at least weekly, it will drastically reduce the
> "fail" corruption rate (as it fixes the small corruptions before they
> propigate).
>
> Some other interesting things that I hadn't heard before:
>
> Large binary files often had to have their version history cleared with
3.1
>
> File locks were frequently left behind and had to be manually removed.
>
> Then there's the dreaded \data\a\aaaaaaaa.a error message that
> everyone seems to end up dealing with (For some reason, I swear there
> was a KB article dealing with all the possible ways this could pop up,
> but I can't find it)
>
> Also, if you delete a file, and then later recreate a file with the
> same name, the previous file history is gone forever (You can't check
> out previous complete builds anymore)
>
> I mean, honestly, it works for a little side project, but for anything
> a business is depending on, I don't trust my weight on it when there's
> free open-source products out there that do much much better in terms
> of both reliability and interface.
>
> --
> Josh McFarlane
>
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