Source control

[Paul E Collins]

I need a source control system for C# that supports exclusive locking
and works across a wide-area network (i.e. the Internet).

Visual SourceSafe can corrupt files over a slow connection, and CVS
and Subversion don't support exclusive locking.

What are my options? I'd prefer something free or cheap!

P.

 

[Guest]

Source Offsite (name?) works over the Internet and links into SourceSafe. It
might be an option.

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Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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[Cletus Van Damme]

I have a developer at work using Source Offsite
(http://www.sourcegear.com/sos/index.asp) remotely over the Internet. He's
been using it for about a year now has had really good luck with it. It
works much faster over a WAN link than plain old VSS and has encryption
support as well. I don't know off hand if it supports exclusive locking
however if VSS supports this, I would imagine SOS does too. It is not free
though.

Cletus

 

[Frans Bouma [C# MVP]]

I need a source control system for C# that supports exclusive locking
and works across a wide-area network (i.e. the Internet).

Visual SourceSafe can corrupt files over a slow connection, and CVS
and Subversion don't support exclusive locking.

What are my options? I'd prefer something free or cheap!

Exclusive locking is something that can never be achieved, or you have to
work directly inside the sourcecontrol database (IIRC clearcase does this).
You can of course exclusively checkout a file, but no-one can stop you from
altering a file on disk. Systems like CVS and Subversion have proven that
exclusive checkouts is not something you need. You do need security, but
that's build into almost any sourcecontrol system.

So you need vss or a clone. I'd try Vault, it's from sourcegear, and free
for individual use if I'm not mistaken. However, consider that exclusive
checkouts are perhaps a requirement on paper, it will probably work against
you in practise.

Frans.

 

[Jeff Clausius]

Paul:

Frans and Greg both mentioned SourceGear products.

I'd like to invite you take a look at the information or to download the
demo regarding SourceGear Vault - http://www.sourcegear.com/vault

Additionaly, you can get other detailed information ( including user
testimonials ) from the SourceGear Support Vault Forums -
http://support.sourcegear.com

If there's anything else I can do, please let me know.

Jeff Clausius
(e-mail address removed) (just reverse the email domain)
SourceGear