[AccessD] Source control Access

I get confused by all the flavors of subversion and also by what criteria
to use in choosing a download.  They offer 32-bit and 64-bit, and while I'm
running 64-bit Windows 8, I'm using 32-bit Office, etc.

Charlotte

On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Guys:
>
> You should try Subversion SVN, unless you are managing thousands of builds
> and users, SourceSafe and its big brother Team Foundation Server is over
> featured and maybe a little over priced.
>
> Many development houses I know of, use SVN all the time. Then there is a
> product called Git which has been highly recommended as the heir apparent.
> On both the above products there are thousands of articles, tutorials and
> solutions on deploying and using them. (Not that it would matter to this
> group but the above two will also run on virtually any OS platform via
> desktop, server, across the web or even through the Cloud.)
>
> Git downloads: http://git-scm.com/downloads
>
> Even hosting companies for Subversion allow you to run your development
> from
> anywhere: http://www.sliksvn.com/en/download (there is a free version but
> you will have to pay for the extra space.) And it is expandable from
> one-off
> to huge enterprises: http://www.open.collab.net/downloads/subversion.html
>
> Then there is Tortoise which encapsulates Subversion and allows it to be
> easily hosted and run on Windows: http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads.html
>
> There are other great products out there that are equally effective but
> tend
> to be targets towards particular development groups and cycles.
>
> Jim
>
>