Visual Source Safe is driving me nuts
For a while we’ve been using VSS for all our source control needs. On top of VSS we had to get Source Anywhere just so we could work from home. Granted we don’t have a huge development shop here, we mostly work from office and our requirements for source control software have been pretty modest, but VSS is just not performing.
During this year, we lost code. There was a very bad case of it when we spent 3 days hunting down a bug and then fixing it only to notice that somehow the changes did not registered with Source Safe. There is also issue of branching and merging – I have to say that when I am forced to do branching it completely ruins my day. After branching is done, I am usually grumpy and unapproachable. With merging, its like that famous line from Forrest Gump – you never know what are you’re gonna get.
After doing some research, I think Subversion should work better. There is only one tiny problem – I can’t find a good unbloated tutorial on how to get this thing started. I know, RTFM but who has time for that? For the next few days I will try to get Subversion work for us. If I will come up with a simple way of getting it going, I will post a short tutorial, probably just for myself, for future reference.