Freeware alternative to VSS (visual source safe)

[Annie]

hello guys,

Is there any cool freeware source safe control to Microsoft Visual Source
Safe?

Tia

 

[Luis Cobian]

Is there any cool freeware source safe control to Microsoft Visual Source
Safe?

Tia

SVN in combination with TortoiseSVN is a great version control system. Don't
expect it to be as good as MS Visual Source (cause VS really rules), but
almost there, IMO.

 

[Gary R. Schmidt]

hello guys,

Is there any cool freeware source safe control to Microsoft Visual Source
Safe?

Well, it's not equivalent, it's better: Subversion, at
<http://www.subversion.org>

Or its predecessor, also better: CVS, at <http://www.cvshome.org>

FWIW - I've been using CVS for the last 6 years (at home and at work),
and before that RCS and SCCS and others for probably another 15 years.
The _only_ source code management system that has ever bitten me is
Visual Source (Un)Safe.

Cheers,
Gary B-)

 

[ulf_honkanen]

Why? Visual SourceSafe is a very solid product. CVS messed up our
repository twice and so bad last time that we changed it to StarTeam.
SourceSafe is a very good product for one developer along of course,
it's not a client server system.

 

[Al Klein]

Why? Visual SourceSafe is a very solid product. CVS messed up our
repository twice and so bad last time that we changed it to StarTeam.
SourceSafe is a very good product for one developer along of course,
it's not a client server system.

Ir claims to be. It just doesn't work any better than any other MS
junk.

 

[ulf_honkanen]

Ir claims to be. It just doesn't work any better than any other MS junk.

Oh, if it's like the medium MS software it's damn sure good enough.
Thanks god it's not like Linuz crap and it's half baked crapware.

 

[Al Klein]

Oh, if it's like the medium MS software it's damn sure good enough.

Destroying files is far from "good enough" unless we're talking about
a file disposer.

Thanks god it's not like Linuz crap and it's half baked crapware.

I'd much rather run something I have the source to. Then at least if
there IS a bug I don't have to wait a year for the author to do
something about it.

 

[Gary R. Schmidt]

Oh, if it's like the medium MS software it's damn sure good enough.
Thanks god it's not like Linuz crap and it's half baked crapware.

What's Linux got to do with it?

I've had SCCS/RCS/CVS/Subversion repositories on
Solaris/HPUX/AIX/Tru64/SCO Xenix/SCO Unix/AT&T SysV/etcetera, over more
than two decades.

I've has VS(Un)S on Windows, twice, in the last eight years. Both as
client-server set-ups, as recommended by Microsoft, I should add.

In each case it has eaten or lost updates to files.

Worse - it munges the files and stores them in some sort of database, so
that I can't just examine the repository and recreate the file by hand.

All of SCCS/RCS/CVS/Sv store the files as plain text, you can
reconstruct a source file manually by examination, you don't really need
to know how they work, it's pretty obvious to the naked eye once you start.

Cheers,
Gary B-)

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rg_Schneider?=]

system. Don't expect it to be as good as MS Visual Source (cause VS
really rules), but almost there, IMO.

You're kidding, aren't you?