Version Control - Tag - In a past life…

Musings about Version Control (and other development tools)

J. Timothy King — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 17:15:38 +0000

Today, I had a conversation with a small company that doesn't use version control.

It's hard to remember what it was like before version control. I know I did get started in a world without it. When I started in embedded development, we didn't have version control.

Before there was version control, I made versioned backups of my entire working directory.

Yikes. Dark ages.

More Reasons to Avoid SourceSafe

J. Timothy King — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 22:23:15 +0000

I’m helping out with a project I used to work on, one in an organization that uses SourceSafe to manage its source code. Fortunately, this time, I don’t have to deal with SourceSafe this time. All I have to do is to submit my diffs against a baseline, and someone else will have to deal with merging them into the repository.

On a more recent project, we’ve been using git. There’s no comparison. It’s pretty cool how git effortlessly handles situations that SourceSafe can’t even fathom. (Another good alternative is svn, but using svnmerge on all branches.)

Top Eight Reasons to Abandon SourceSafe

J. Timothy King — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:03:59 +0000

How many of us work in Microsoft shops? I’m ashamed to admit that I do. When I took the job, I thought the benefits of working in a new domain with new technologies would outweigh the fact that I had to use Microsoft tools and program for Windows. Well, the benefits are real. The costs are also real. And one of these costs is SourceSafe.

The worst part about it is that there’s no particularly good reason why we have to use SourceSafe.