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Alternatives to Visual SourceSafe?

Before Intersolv was Polytron (the P in PVCS).

Was very happy with it until the then-current owner of the system attempted to charge extortionate support fees (Approx. $300/seat/year, IIRC) at a PPOE a number of years (and three jobs) ago. Forced that employer to a completely different product (which I will neither name nor recommend).

The PVCS Tracker started life as DCS (Defect Control System) from a company whose name I've forgotten (ISTR a bug on a surfboard in their ads, though). It was a great product, the best defect tracker I'd used, before or since. Haven't used it in years, though.

Regards, -=Dave

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Dave Hansen
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And this is bad, why? In subversion it is per-design to allow working offline.

It is good for me because when I write my own stuff it's' offline, on a memory stick thus avoiding the naughty clause in my contract about the use of employer-owned storage facilities and network ressources is a transfer of ownership.

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Frithiof Andreas Jensen

Without getting into the working off-line issue, my point was that there is no "free alternative" that has this same feature.

Personally, I prefer a strict separation between my and configuration managment system, source code, and the tools used to manipulate the source code. When meta-data is introduced into the source tree working copy (view), tools which are not a part of the configuration managment system *may* be impacted by these directories and files. My ideological side finds that ... unappealing.

Then there is the extra disk space consumed, but that is becoming less of an issue as time progresses. However, there are times when I have multiple "views" of the same repository for different versions of different projects, and doubling the size of each can start looking like real disk space ;-)

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Michael N. Moran

Except, as previously mentioned, svk...

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toby

Dave Hansen escribió:

I'm still using plain old 16-bit (MS-DOS) PVCS. We changed to RCS with projects that had to had more than 8+3 filenames. I'm proposing nowadays Subversion, which seems much more scalable, flexible, and robust.

There are some guys here using VSS for PCs stuff, but they *never* understood version control in the first place.

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Ignacio G.T.

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