i have a guy in my company who behaves a little bit
like Eric's fellow. Fortunately, svn migration is on the
way because this guy has nothing to say about this,
I went directly to management with a well written
proposal, with the motivations to switch to svn.
The guy's points for not dropping VSS were :
* VSS is simple to use, he learned to use it in 15'
* VSS is "wonderfully" integrated into MS dev tools
* there is no need to change
* VSS'2005 (6?) has all the features of svn -- ;)
his points are easily refuted, but still he does
not want to admit he is wrong. what is amazing
is how some people get lost outside of MS's
prison.
i have to admit that changing from VSS to svn
requires (for the basic user) to learn how to
resolve conflicts, and to watch out for the
outcome of automated merges.
my advice is to ignore that guy and send your
proposal to the decision takers. i had to do it
because he was getting noisy. i was also
lucky that the decision taker (who did not know
much about vss nor svn) was adviced by
his trusted project manager, who also wanted
to work with svn but had had not time to try it.
regards,
/marc
2007/2/6, Janine Sisk <janine@furfly.net>:
> On Feb 5, 2007, at 12:34 PM, L. Wayne Johnson wrote:
>
> > The bottom line is Visual Source Safe is *not* *safe*. I have used
> > it at
> > another company and we had nothing but problems with it.
>
> It was a long time ago now, but the company I worked for converted
> from CVS to VSS and there were certain files which were corrupted
> every time you checked them in. Same corruption every time, same
> files. No-one at Microsoft seemed to be too concerned, nor did any
> of the people responsible for the change choose to act like it
> mattered. I no longer remember how it was resolved; I think I may
> have left the company while it was still going on.
>
> Each time I read Eric's posts about this guy I wonder "where is his
> manager?". Unless he is single-handedly responsible for some big
> chunk of the company's bottom line, he should not be allowed to
> behave like this. Have you made sure that his boss, and yours, are
> aware of his obstructionist ways?
>
> janine
>
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