I'm relatively new to using subversion (for a small startup of mine) but I have
and continue to use VSS in my day job. Hence my choice of subversion for my own
use.
The best thing about SourceSafe is the price.
Everything is else terrible.
We've nearly 2 million lines of source (C++ and VB6) in our main repository and
about 20 developers. I've had to extract and rebuild the whole repository three
times in 2 years. Each time losing 6+ months of history.
It's slow and the 'analyze/compress/repair' functionality does not seem ever to
compress and recover space. The corruption is terrible. We've gone through
periods where we'd lose several files each day.
Marc Leith
"Everyone has to believe in something, I believe I'll have another beer".
Quoting Mark <mark@msdhub.com>:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wadsworth, Eric (Contractor)" <wadswore@fhu.disa.mil>
>
>
> > 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?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > --- Eric
>
> Not a document, but I can tell you this: if you go looking for help with
> VSS, you'll quickly find that there's only 1 (one) book ever written about
> it (which is a couple of versions back and now out of print) and anyone who
> will consult on VSS will offer the same first advice: "Get rid of VSS for
> ANYTHING else".
>
> VSS has big problems with repository corruption, and even MS recommends that
> you keep repositories smallish. The repository fixer doesn't always fix
> broken repositories.
>
> It's pretty telling that Microsoft doesn't use it for the Windows source.
>
> Mark
>
>
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