You might want to give Perforce a try. I read about it in the latest Linux Magazine. It says here it was used in the development of UT2003. There is one problem though: it costs money unless used for free software. www.perforce.com

It is rumored that MS use a modified version of Perforce internally for major products. Visual Source Safe would never be able to support large projects like Windows or Office.

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Are there any of these type of programs that will work for windows? I would use linux, but I already started my project in DX, and I am too lazy to convert it to OGL... although it is becomming a very attractive idea...

Until then, a good windows version?

Thanx

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Original post by Tazzel3D
Are there any of these type of programs that will work for windows?

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Yeah, all of them.

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How appropriate. You fight like a cow.

Doesn''t the CVS repository lock when you do a check in? I''ve never seen that bug before!

Yes, it does. That''s why some people write scripts to clean out stale locks every now and then.

If you''re already used to CVS, Subversion is definitely the best "next step". Its commands are _very_ similar (i.e. almost always identical) to CVS, but it also has advantages:
- atomic commits (i.e. concurrent commits can fail but not mess up the repository)
- logging and diffing is a lot more comfortable, because revision numbers are repository-wide instead of per-file
- file renaming and directory deletion actually works like it''s supposed to
- many commands can be executed without connecting to the server
The only disadvantage of Subversion is that the graphical tools aren''t as mature as CVS graphical tools - not that it''s that problematic when all you need is to type "svn commit" on a console, but whatever.
Note that a Subversion server is based on Apache 2.x right now (in theory, one could also implement a server via ssh).

IMHO, Subversion is perfect for smallish and/or centralized projects.

From what I''ve seen, Arch (Free) and Bitkeeper (non-Free) take a different kind of approach than CVS/SVN, which is probably better suited for decentralized development. I haven''t actually used either of them, though.

cu,
Prefect

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Note that a Subversion server is based on Apache 2.x right now (in theory, one could also implement a server via ssh).

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Nothing theoretical about that. svnserve, the dedicated SVN server(doesn''t run in Apache) can be tunneled over SSH.

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Ah cool, I didn''t know that. Reminder to self: Check your information more often.

cu,
Prefect

www.perforce.com

This is *the* best source management tool around afaik.
However the trial version is only limited to 2 user.