My favorite comment on VSS came from a developer in Microsoft: Your
source would be much safer if you simply printed it out to hard copy
and shredded it than storing it in VSS.
Microsoft uses ClearCase as its Version Control System of choice if
that tells you anything about the trustworthiness VSS.
In any project, I would prefer Subversion over VSS. However,
Subversion is missing some key features that would make it easy to use
for very large corporate projects. The one we recently discussed is
merging. SVN doesn't track merges. In a small project where you can
watch everyone and merges and branching is rare, this isn't a problem.
However, in a large project where you have lots of branches, merging,
and too many people to keep track of, you may have problems.
That being said, Subversion and Apache are very big projects that use
Subversion as their version control system.
If your company has very large corporate projects, I'd look into using
Perforce or ClearCase as VCS.
On 7/8/05, Nguyen, Tin Chanh <tinnguyen@psv.com.vn> wrote:
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>
>
> Hi all,
>
> We are on the way to research SubVersion and evaluate its values as
> Configuration Management software. Before it, we used VSS for almost
> projects. Actually, VSS is not good for big projects and that's why we
> consider to SubVersion. We just only apply it on small projects but not in
> big projects. Actually, we still do not image how many problems we can face
> when we apply SubVersion for big projects. Any risks maybe get from it? Can
> we discuss deeply about it? We hope to receive any ideas about this topic,
> especially from technical people or who had experienced to work on it with
> big projects.
>
>
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> BaByInIT
>
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