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Post #27,198
by Yendor
2/4/02 11:57:39 AM
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New Be careful...
Some source code control is better than none, but that point is debatable when the source code control you're using is M$ VSS. I has a tendency to eat its database for lunch once in a while. And, of course, once that happens, you have lost all history.

So, that begs the question....Is your source really safe with SourceSafe?
-YendorMike

"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by the skeptics or the cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who dream of things that never were." - John F. Kennedy
Post #27,323
by bconnors
2/5/02 12:17:50 AM
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New I've heard about that before
But have no real say in trying to get them to investigate alternatives. It came with the few copies of Visual Studio that they own, so they're using what they already paid for. I've also mentioned to the team leader/contractor about the mulitple articles I've read about VSS going down the black hole, but he just shrugs his shoulders and says "we have backup tapes".

This from a place that STILL has the ghost of Nimda/Code Red floating around a few servers as of yesterday. They keep saying that Norton has killed it, but I keep finding .EML and .NWS files on a few of the servers I use daily.

I keep current copies of all my projects locally, and bring home files on floppy to keep my CD archive current.
BConnors
"Prepare for metamorphosis. Ready, Kafka?"
     Source Code Repository Software. - (static) - (16) - Feb. 1, 2002, 01:03:29 AM EST
         Re: Source Code Repository Software. - (wharris2) - Feb. 1, 2002, 08:31:34 AM EST
         Re: Source Code Repository Software. - (Yendor) - Feb. 1, 2002, 10:17:03 AM EST
         You could give Perforce a shot - (ben_tilly) - (1) - Feb. 1, 2002, 01:33:09 PM EST
             Tried it... - (Yendor) - Feb. 1, 2002, 03:47:56 PM EST
         Re: Source Code Repository Software. - (bconnors) - (4) - Feb. 3, 2002, 09:21:10 PM EST
             Be careful... - (Yendor) - (1) - Feb. 4, 2002, 11:57:39 AM EST
                 I've heard about that before - (bconnors) - Feb. 5, 2002, 12:17:50 AM EST
             Based on RCS? - (wharris2) - Feb. 4, 2002, 12:09:42 PM EST
             Doesn't PVCS cost? - (static) - Feb. 4, 2002, 09:53:41 PM EST
         Subversion 1.0 is out. - (Another Scott) - (3) - March 18, 2004, 01:14:46 PM EST
             The problem with Subversion - (admin) - (2) - March 18, 2004, 02:45:41 PM EST
                 Re: The problem with Subversion - (dshellman) - (1) - June 16, 2004, 02:40:02 PM EDT
                     I'm using it at home. - (admin) - June 16, 2004, 02:43:04 PM EDT
         What about StarTeam? - (bluke) - (2) - June 16, 2004, 11:10:00 AM EDT
             StarTeam is OK - (admin) - June 16, 2004, 11:22:18 AM EDT
             Good product - (Yendor) - June 16, 2004, 12:29:07 PM EDT

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