Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Thu Jan 18 18:32:37 CST 2007
Thanks Charlotte.... I did not know that. Sounds like a very specialized tool for a specific product. Not sure if that is enough of an incentive to sway adoption. Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Charlotte Foust Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 11:04 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] Subversion was (Re: OMG!!!!!!) I'm not sure you and Bryan are talking about the same thing. VSS has an Access add-in that must be installed to allow you to add and remove objects from a VSS project from the database as discrete files, even though they are included within the Access MDB. Those objects can be checked out individually from the Access MDB created from the VSS project. If you try to add the MDB to VSS the same way you would Word docs or a VB6 project, you wind up with a file that contains no discrete objects and is pretty useless. Charlotte Foust -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 10:06 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: Re: [AccessD] Subversion was (Re: OMG!!!!!!) Good point Bryan.... I am not sure.:-/ I have never separated out a product like MS Access and have always saved the application as a whole. Could see where that feature could come in very handy. Even when working with a remote programming buddy we have always kept to our own modules. Ever since a project got corrupted, a number of years ago I have not attempted merging. (Is it safe now?) Maybe these issues have now been resolved? > See what happens when you take a course. You miss good stuff :) I thought you take a course to learn good stuff :-) Jim PS I am always getting confused with the use of VSS. Never know whether Visual Safe Source or Volume Shadow copy Services is been discussed. -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Carbonnell Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 5:05 AM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: [AccessD] Subversion was (Re: OMG!!!!!!) On 1/17/07, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote: > Subversion has versioning, even automatic backup cycles, it has > allowed me to co-author projects over the internet and it has a great > list of other features. I tend to just force a backup of coding or > letter writing when the > mood hits.... once an hour or less. It has saved my bacon (getting > good > instincts) a number of times and works on both main OS environments. I > had some problems running and using VSS and found this package so much > friendlier. Check it out at: http://subversion.tigris.org/ Use it with > all my MS Access, web site and Word work. See what happens when you take a course. You miss good stuff :) Jim, With Subversion, can you check in individual components of an MDB, or is it just the whole file? IOW, can you check in queries, reports, forms, etc separately like you can with VSS? -- Bryan Carbonnell - carbonnb at gmail.com Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "What a great ride!" -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com