At the moment we use Visual SourceSafe for our source control, my colleague wants to migrate to Subversion but I am not entirely convinced yet. I have investigated it before and had some serious issues that appear to have been resolved now which is great, but I have one main issue with it and that is the concept of Commit/Merge. I reall...
Our dev shop currently uses Visual SourceSafe. We all know how that could end up (badly), so we're investigating other systems. First up is Perforce. Does anyone have experience with using it and its integration into Visual Studio (2003/2005/2008)? Is it as good as any other, or is it pretty solid with good features, comparatively? ...
Around here we have been working with a bunch of Visual Source Safe repositories for about 10 years or so. Now I want to get rid of sourcesafe and move on to Team Foundation Server. Do you have any tips or tricks for me before I embark on this migration? What are the things I have to be careful about? I am sure this migration will m...
Right now I am working with an ASP.NET website that automatically generates images and stores them in a temporary folder. When working on my local system these go going into a temporary folder that gets picked up by Visual Source Safe which then wants to check them in. As such, I am wondering if there is a way to just exclude that partic...
My current place of employment is currently in a transition, new ownership has taken over, things are finally getting standardized and proper guidelines are being enforced. But we are still using VSS, there really isn't any reason for using it other then that's what whats initially setup. We don't use Visual Studio, or any tool really...
My company using VSS and Visual Studio 2005 (soon 2008). They want to switch to CVS but the developers don't want to loose the integration we get with VSS and Visual Studio. I know there are CVS plug ins but what functional, if any, is lost with CVS? ...
I am forced to use VSS at work, but use SVN for a personal repository. What is the best way to sync between VSS and sync? ...
I'm a single developer looking to get off of Visual Source Safe and move to svn. A quick search brings up several tools, but I don't see a clear winner and I can't afford to spend a lot of time testing different tools. Has anyone done this successfully, and can recommend a method? ...
When attempting to open a project from source control on a newly formatted pc, I receive an "unable to get the project file from the web server" after getting the sln file from VSS. If I attempt to open the sln file from explorer, I also receive the same error. Any pointers or ideas? Thanks! ...
Greetings. I'm a 1-2 man band at work, and so far I've been using VSS for two reasons 1) the company was using that when I started a few months ago, and 2) it is friendly with Visual Studio. Needless to say, I would very much like to upgrade to a not-so-archaic source control system. However, I don't want to give up the friendliness ...
What I currently do is I link the project to another location and give it the same name, then check the box where it says "Branch after share." And then I would Check out the shared project and work off it. And finally merge with the original project. This works okay, but it feels very clunky: I have multiple instances of the project o...
How can I exclude the bin folder from SourceSafe in a Visual Studio 2008 web application? I want to be able to check in everything recursively from the solution node without picking up anything in the bin folder. ...
The title should say it all, then I can solidify 2 more ticks on the Joel test. I've implemented build automation using a makefile and a python script already and I understand the basics and the options. But how can I, the new guy who reads the blogs, convince my cohort of its inherent efficacy? ...
I need to write a script to make a source safe project ready to be moved to subversion, what do I need to do so far I can think of: remove .scc files remove .vspcc files Do I need to remove the "read-only" attribute of all the files as well, or will that not matter? What language would you write this script in, I was planning to do ...
Visual Studio randomly crashes when adding/removing references and projects. Any thoughts why? Will installing Sp1 help? EDIT: I do not work with any addons except SourceSafe. I do most of my development in connected mode. Developing using: Visual Studio 2008 WinXp Terminal Service -> Win2k3 Sp2 (64bit) VSS 8.0, 32bit ...
Our company has a policy imposing the requirement of keeping source code in a SourceSafe repository. I've tried hard to persuade the management to migrate to SVN with no success (whcih is an another issue, anyway). As I and few of my colleagues use SVN repository placed on my computer (via Apache), I made a PowerShell script which does...
Anyone have any suggestions on where to start for a newbie wanting to try out some sort of source-control along with a new journey into ASP.NET? SVN, VSS, CVS...I dont even know where to start! ...
In answer to this question Joel Coehoorn said Finally, only after the site's gone through a suitable QA process, the production server is updated from source control, not from within visual studio. Does VSS Explorer have tools for deploying sites (via FTP, I would assume)? I noticed for the first time a Web/Deploy menu option, but...
My development team uses source safe at a very basic level. We're moving into some more advanced and extended development cycles and I can't help but think that not using branching and merging in order to manage changes is going to be biting us very soon. What arguments did you find most useful in order to convince your team to move to...
What is the best way to import a website into a Visual Sourcesafe 2005 database? I tried opening a the VSS database and drag-n-drop the folder but it started prompting me for a comment on each folder. Is there a better way or someway to have it only ask onces for any files or folders that are being processed? ...