Stephen P Rufle wrote:
> I also use VSS and I would like to know what about it is evil. I ask
> because I was looking into CVS also and it seemed that for our office we
> would not gain much besides not having to pay for additional
> SourceOffsite (remote client for VSS) licenses.
>
> It may be that I am not using any of the bad features.
Derek can explain his own reasons for calling VSS evil. I will jump in
with mine.
In all the projects I have worked on where VSS was used for version
control, I never went more than about a month without respository
corruption. This is in both networked and local repositories, though
networked seemed worse. If you use VSS, make sure you have constant
backups of the repository. One time the corruptions were so regular
that I took to doing repository backups just before every interaction
with it.
Maybe it was configured wrong. Maybe the moon was too close to the
earth. Maybe I didn't hold my toungue just right. Whatever the reason,
(and we/I looked for a reason) it was not trustworthy and we could not
figure out why.
CVS is not perfect but I have never suffered such pain with it as I have
with VSS.
BTW, I also recommend looking at Subversion. Many of the maintainers of
CVS are the ones creating Subversion. They know what they are doing.
Alan
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