Hello
I've trawled EE and there are number of others that have asked this question previously - but not recently, so forgive me if I ask this again.
We have been using Subversion running on Linux as our source control system using Turtle SVC as the client. This was at the suggestion of a now departed developer who took the knowledge of how to adminsiter the system with him. We are a Windows house and are pretty well clued up and have been looking at the Windows version of Subversion but aren't getting very far as it has a rather unfriendly command line interface - whilst being very versatile for people that understand that sort of thing - is not the most convenient for those of us that stay clear of the Windows CMD feature.
So, can anyone out there suggest a solid and versatile source control solution, which has user friendly interface, that will suit a team of 4 of us - 2 programmers, project + product managers (the latter 2 being those with the aversion to command lines)!
Thanks
Ed
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Use Visual Microsoft Source Safe, with that you can have ur main program source in a server, and other programers get the files they need to edit from the server[check out] and they work onit.. once they finish, they again send those edited files to the server[check in]
so the codes are maintend without mess.
StarTeam. It has more features, then VSS, like change request linking. It's not free.
Here are several references you may find helpful, including discussions of several
OSS SCM systems, and Windows versions of CVS and subversion.
http://www.dwheeler.com/es
https://www.cvshome.org/de
http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/
http://www.tortoisecvs.org
http://summersoft.fay.ar.u
BitKeeper - now used by the Linux kernel - Commercial
http://www.bitkeeper.com/
Perforce - used this at my last job, nice for use with C++, Python, html, asp, etc...used for cross platform development
http://www.perforce.com/
then take CVS as recommened above. CVS has been around for quite awhile, the Linux kernel used to use CVS, and many still want it. Perforce is just a different interface and a few new tools on top of RCS so it's similar to CVS.
And with things like SSH you can have developers working locally as well as across the internet all with strong security.
Don't go with SourceSafe, there are many features lacking that you have to pay third-party tools to get, and it's a pain. I've always perfered CVS.
Introduction to CVS
https://www.cvshome.org/do
CVSNT FAQ
http://www.cvsnt.org/wiki/
CVS FAQ
https://ccvs.cvshome.org/f
How to Use CVS
http://www.stanford.edu/cl
I would suggest SourceGear Vault.
We have been using this since 3 year and our company has offices world wide.
It is dependable robust and you think abourt a feature and it is already there.
It integrates very well with the Windows platform.
We had encountered a similar problem. Then our team had tested all different kinds of source doe constrols.
Any finally finalized Source Gear Vault.
I have myself tried to kind of screw it but believe me you cannot even scratch it.
ok bye
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by: udo_borkowskiPosted on 2004-12-16 at 10:35:20ID: 12843715
I suggest to use CVSNT (http://www.cvsnt.com) and a CVS Client like WinCVS (http://www.wincvs.org/).
Works fine in Windows enviroments.