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Speaking about free offers...

Probably everybody know about it, but if somebody doesn't - it is a great thing to know.

SourceGear's Vault - a version control system for windows developers - is free for personal use. It's similiar to Visual Source Safe but uses SQL Server (or MSDE) for storage, it can use check-out/edit/check-in (VSS) model or edit/merge/commit (CVS) model, it can import projects from VSS, it can work over Web... and more. Simply, a great piece of software.

Why to use a SCS in one-person development? For me, the reasons include:

  • Easy access to previous versions of everything I wrote,
  • Access to current source code tree from every machine I use and from every place,
  • Easy project branching for new versions or simply trying new techniques without damaging stable version,
  • No-pain upgrade to multi-developer project (besides cost of licenses, that is).

Just download, install, try. You will wonder how you could work so long without source control.

Are you using source control for personal development? Which software? How do you find it? Are there any issues? Share your opinion.

Posted: May 18 2004, 08:33 PM by michu | with 4 comment(s)
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ajunod@NOSPAMMEsnet.net (Aaron Junod) said:

I started using VSS at home about 6 months ago, and wondered how I ever lived without it before hand. Not only did it allow me to organize my personal code, but I started stuffing all kinds of stuff in there, probably too much. It also allowed me to feel confident about my pesonal data being backed up.

After using VSS for so long at work, I don't know why I never did it before. I won't go back :) I chose VSS since it's primarily what I use, and it's also what I know, although I do have a desire to look at both subversion and vault.
# May 18, 2004 3:23 PM

Mark Erikson said:

I've been using CVS thus far, but I'm about to switch over to Subversion. I like the CVS model for simplicity, and the Tortoise* clients make it really easy to handle the basic operations, especially since I've always got Windows Explorer open anyway.
# May 18, 2004 3:30 PM

Michal said:

I use mainly Visual Studio .NET, and I like integrated source control interaction. Also, Vault is very easy to install, simply Next, Next, select database, et voila. I prefer it to VSS because of its SQL Server use. It is very fast.
I haven't been using CVS, but I think I'll give it a try some day.
# May 18, 2004 3:40 PM

Joey said:

That's very cool to hear. I'm the sole developer at my company and need to implement a source control system. I've been looking at Vault the past couple days and I think I'm going with that. I really like that it runs on a SQL back-end. Cool!
# May 18, 2004 11:59 PM
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