Version Control Blog

Jeff Atwood in his recent blog post advocates the use of modern source control systems, as opposed to Visual SourceSafe. He provides links to informative lists of Visual SourceSafe flaws and encourages to try out more adequate alternatives, such as Subversion and SourceGear Vault. Critical discussion in comments is rather informative, with several interesting links which I’ll cover later. Read more at:

• Source Control: Anything But SourceSafe, which links to:
• Alan De Smet: Visual SourceSafe: Microsoft’s Source Destruction System
• Michael Bolton: Visual SourceSafe Version Control: Unsafe at any Speed?

Recent posts on similar topics

• Couple of links on Visual SourceSafe - February 17th, 2007
• Overview: database schema version control - November 5th, 2006

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