Date parsed: 18/04/2008 02:35:02
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:35:02 -0700 (PDT)
On Mar 24, 11:27 am, nat...@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:
> In article <acc6516f-9917-4ae1-aa56-46a2bbc06...@p73g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>,
>
> javelin <jmevalen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >We have a dev server, a testing server, and a live server. Now, we
> >have 3 developers, and we are having trouble tracking which files on
> >which server are the latest. I know it should be obvious, but this
> >is a bit complicated, as many of you may have experienced.
>
> What you want is version control, sometimes previously called
> source control. Version control has a central database of all files,
> and revisions on those files. You can then submit changes from any
> machine, and then you can fetch latest from any other machine.
>
> People have had the same needs as you for quite some time, so
> there's a whole bunch of products that do this. One of the better open
> source projects to do this is Subversion, available fromhttp://subversion.tigris.org/, is used by many projects (open and
> closed source). If you have a higher budget, Perforce, available fromhttp://www.perforce.com/, is what I've used at work, and recommend
> highly. It's got a *ton* of features, as well as a 2-user, unlimited
> time, demo available.
>
> Also, if someone tries to sell you Microsoft's version control,
> called Microsoft SourceSafe, *throw it away*. It's one of the bigger
> pieces of junk out there, and completely not worth it. I can't
> believe that MS uses such a thing internally -- their 'dogfooding'
> practice.
>
> Nathan Mates
>
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Thanks for the response. I was actually aware of MS Visual Source
Safe, have worked with it, plan to stay away from it. In fact, I heard
years ago that MS does NOT use it, but was using a 3rd party software
app of some kind. They have now produced a new package called Team
Suite, that's supposed to be good, but it's still an MS product, so
buyer beware.
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll look into them.
J
