Re:Branchless development
by logiclabs on Sunday July 19, 2015 @09:15AM
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I suspect there might have been a touch of sarcasm in that VSS remark
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Re:Branchless development
by radicalbyte on Sunday July 19, 2015 @11:22AM
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Yes, I was being sarcastic. Sorry for confusing you koonsolo.
Visual Source Safe is an absolute pig, unless you're already using it and can't switch then I strongly advise getting as far away as possible.
Team Foundation Server - the replacement - has historically been just as poor. It does however have the advantage of including some extremely powerful software lifecycle management features.
Recent developments - such as the Git-based Team Foundation Online - are really rather good, especially if you need more advanced features and like giving Microsoft money ;)
I agree with the VSS-hate, of course, but it's unfair to say that TFS is just as bad. TFS is annoyingly difficult to administer, but it's a zillion times more robust than VSS, and compares favorably to Subversion or Perforce (and has excellent Visual Studio integration).
Git totally kills it, of course, but as traditional old-school VCS goes, it's not bad at all.