A Frog in the Valley

Source Control : anything but sourcesafe!

Great little recap and topical linkfest : Source Control - Anything But SourceSafe. Subversion is way up there (as it should). To quote :

I don't mean to pick on SourceSafe here. It was a perfectly adequate source control system in the late 90’s. Unfortunately, SourceSafe was never updated architecturally to reflect modern source control practices. Even the latest version, SourceSafe 2005, absolutely reeks of 1999. And, to be fair, some of the same criticisms apply to CVS. CVS is no longer a modern source control system; it doesn't even support the concept of atomic checkins.

BTW, what is your choice of of subversion client for OSX? I am leaning towards SVNX, but would like to know if others have opinions about that…

Tags: opensource, source-control, subversion, cvs, sourcesafe, development

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Was it a perfectly adequate source control system in the late 90’s. Unfortunately, SourceSafe was never updated architecturally to reflect modern source control practices. Even the latest version, SourceSafe 2005, absolutely reeks of 1999. And, to be fair, some of the same criticisms apply to CVS. CVS is no longer a modern source control system; it doesn't even support the concept of atomic checkins.

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