Re: CVS vs VSS
Re: CVS vs VSS
- Subject: Re: CVS vs VSS
- From: David Dunham <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 20:35:31 -0800
Chris
All modern tools are built around edit-modify-commit. You're not going
to find many modern tools built around the old exclusive locking (check
out-check in) model
Well, you can do it in Perforce on a file-by-file basis, but it's
really intended for file formats that can't support merging (like most
binary files), not for general use over the entire repository.
I don't know of a single Mac application that doesn't have
unmergeable binaries (if only their icon). NIBs are essentially
binaries, aren't they? Therefore, any Mac developer group must have a
way to deal with locking (or at least notification) of binaries.
For all its flaws, at least VSS lets you announce your intent to edit
an unmergeable file, while at the same time not really requiring a
checkout.
There is a version of Source Offsite (which lets you access VSS w/o
Windows) for Mac OS X; I've never used it. I do know that SOS (under
Windows) has had troubles doing merges.
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