What would be the ideal reconciliation mechanism between what is there in VSS 6.0 and what is there in our production environment? Our company outsources all its application support & development activities and are dependent on the vendor to provide the solution file to be kept in our VSS. We do have quite a number of projects and would like to understand on how to go about with reconciling the files which are under VSS and what has been actually deployed in production.
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Sounds like you need some form of file based compare, as VSS is a file repository.
I therefore recommend Beyond Compare, check-out the VSS trunk/latest, and compare the directory with production. You can filter out the .vss files (I think they where called that) and see what new/older, or missing on one side etc.
It can also compare locale file to a FTP destination, depends how you access "production" really.
Simeon Pilgrim
2009-07-22 09:42:02
BeyondCompare is great, but costs. If you need a free/open source equivalent, try WinMerge. Here: http://winmerge.org/
CraigTP
2009-07-22 09:45:55
costs, ouch if $30USD or $50USD is too much, some serious questions needed to be asked, like is there a next pay check?
Simeon Pilgrim
2009-07-22 09:56:30
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Dave
2009-09-23 19:49:24