One advantage (only one I can see) is that VSS manages binary files well,
i.e. it has exclusive locking. For this reason I would choose it over CVS
or subversion at this point, though SVN will have it after 1.0.
CVS has advisory locks, but might not be what you want (I know I don't)
for a large organization.
If you have binary data, be sure that your source control can manage it.
Exclusive locking is nessesary to prevent two people updating the same
file at the same time - which then requires they hand merge changes. This
is really really hard for some data formats (3d models with animation,
texture mapping, etc.. for example).
On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Sir Woody Hackswell wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Wadsworth, Eric (Contractor) wrote:
>
> > In other words, they are choosing it kind of by default. They have not
> > considered features in their choice. The people I spoke with said that they
> > would be open to consider alternatives to VSS. Now would be the time to
> > clear my throat and say something, if something will ever be said here.
> >
> > I, for one, have never seen VSS used, but one guy on my team here says he's
> > used it, and hated it. Has anyone writtem a document doing a feature
> > comparison? How about a usability comparison? Is there a URL that compares
> > Subversion with VSS, showing relative strengths and weaknesses? I'd like to
> > have a document to pass around to a few key people (some of whom are big
> > open-source fans) but I'm not qualified to write it myself, having never
> > used VSS.
>
> I'll vouch for the crappiness of VSS. It corrupts easily, and the tools MS
> gives you to fix it, don't fix it. =sigh= It also gets very very slow as the
> database gets larger. No atomic commits. You must lock files to edit them.
> NO UNIX SUPPORT. About its only advantage that we use is file "sharing"
> between projects. i.e. you update a shared file in one project, and someone
> checks out the other project, they'll get the same version.
>
> I'd even consider CVS over VSS any day.
>
> A few comparisons:
> http://www.perforce.com/perforce/reviews.html
> http://better-scm.berlios.de/comparison/comparison.html
>
> One in Italian, if you read it:
> http://www.siforge.org/articles/2002/12/10-version-control.html
> Google translated version:
> http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.siforge.org/articles/2002/12/10-version-control.html&prev=/search%3Fq%3DVSS%2Bsubersion%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8
>
>
> -Woody!
>
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>
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>
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