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Ralph Trickey maintains TOAW III
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Geek Stuff : Changing SCCS systems

Nobody cares except for the three hate mails that I'm going to get, but I'm switching from SVN to Basic TFS.

I store copies of all the source code, tracing back to when I got access to the code, that's called SCCS, SCM, and probably some other acronyms. That means that I can see exactly what changes I've made to the code over time.

SVN is a fine product, but for some reason I kept getting errors about needing to execute the cleanup command, and got frustrated by what I needed to do to fix the issues I was having. I was also having some display issues linked to using 64-bit windows.

By switching to TFS basic, I also get to add and attach bugs to specific code changes, something that isn't possible with SVN by itself, and which will help me down the road when I want to know why I did something. I know that I can get bugzilla or other products to get the same functionality, but this is also what I'm using at my day job, so it makes my life a bit easier.

Ralph

 


Posted by Ralph Trickey on Sunday, January 10, 2010 1:23 PM
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Silvanski United States

Monday, January 11, 2010 9:48 AM

Silvanski

Well this isn't a hate mail cuz I have no freakin' idea what you're talking about Ralph.
If it makes bugfixing easier, you gotta pursue your ideas and use whatever tool suits you best.

parmenio United Kingdom

Thursday, January 14, 2010 5:39 AM

parmenio

Ralph,

I'm still using SourceSafe for home work Smile

I had been thinking about switching to SubVersion since that's what we use at work (and I've not had the problems you're having) but maybe I'll take a look at TFS instead.

Andy.

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