Re: Using Subversion in a dumb organization

On 8/16/06, Bala Paranj <bparanj@yahoo.com> wrote:

> I am joining a company that is using MS source safe as the source control.
> I am planning to use
> Subversion for my own purposes using svn protocol. This way I would always
> have the history of my
> source files and leverage other sound features of Subversion.

Good luck. That sounds very difficult. In particular, operations like moving
and renaming files and directories sounds very hard to duplicate properly
between a remote VSS server and a local svn repository. You'll also have to
deal with sync'ing two different working copies or having both svn and vss
control files/directories in the same working copy. That doesn't sounds fun
either.

I know VSS doesn't have a great reputation but, IMO, it's certainly better
than nothing. Personally, I've used it for years and never lost data due to
a VSS bug. Your experience may differ, of course.
Received on Fri Aug 18 03:56:55 2006