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Re: CVS vs VSS
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Re: CVS vs VSS


  • Subject: Re: CVS vs VSS
  • From: Chris Hanson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2004 22:04:03 -0500

On Feb 14, 2004, at 9:23 PM, Chuck Soper wrote:
Concerning Microsoft's Visual SourceSafe..
You forgot the part where it (VSS) corrupts your repository at the drop of a hat, or the part where it's horrendously slow. :)

Hey, I've had that experience, too (corrupting the repository). It froze integrations for group of twenty-five for three days! MS Visual SourceSafe might be okay for small groups/projects.

Not really. I've never used it on a project of more than four people. It was completely inadequate to that task too.


And what version control tool do you think Microsoft uses? It's a well known (accepted) industry rumor that MS uses a derivative of Perforce for huge projects like Windows 2000.

Absolutely. Microsoft doesn't "dogfood" (their term) Visual SourceSafe. If they don't trust it, why should their customers?


I think the best idea for Apple going forward would be to support a very generic plug-in API in Xcode that exposes the application's object model via Objective-C, and lets plug-ins add menus (both to the various contextual menus and the menu bar). That way there could be a CVS plug-in, a Perforce plug-in, a Vault plug-in (since I gather Mono or Rotor will let you run the Vault command-line client)...

  -- Chris

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