Hi, I'm in the same boat and I'm corrently giving CVS a go at home for organising docs & source. I run the CVS server on my Debian box and use WinCVS on WinXP. Once you understand what's going on with CVS it all makes sense. I'd recommend you persist ;)
There is a difference in paradigm between CVS and other options, such as VSS. VSS is server oriented while CVS is client oriented. This is taking some getting used to but I certainly see the advantages of CVS. Some things in CVS are bad, such as moving stuff around, but it forces you to think about organising things properly to begin with ;) What do you mean by "too manual"? What client are you using for CVS? WinCVS, as far as I have used it, is just as good os the VSS client IMHO. I definitely recommend reading about how CVS works. I'm sure you've already done a fair amount of this. Knowing the terminology certainly helps with understanding what the menu items are for & understandng the paradigm. I use VSS at work so I've seen both sides :) VSS costs, CVS is OSS. For what you pay for CVS it far exceeds VSS IMHO ;) Check out www.freevcs.org for another option. It's OSS now. I think a few people on the list use this. Any comments anyone? MTCW, Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:Dave.Jollie@;nz.towerlimited.com] > Sent: Monday, 11 November 2002 1:13 p.m. > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: [DUG]: Best version control system? > > > I'm trying out CVS but it seems rather clunky, un-intuitive, > quirky and too > manual. Is there any freeware product out there which does a > better job and > isn't too big a learning curve? Any websites you can suggest? > > Thanks. > > Dave Jollie > Software Developer BOA IT > 09 368 4259 ext 6231 > > The information contained in this mail message is > confidential and may also > be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, > please note > that any use, dissemination, further distribution, or > reproduction of this > message in any form what so ever, is strictly prohibited. If > the mail is in > error, please notify me by return E-mail, delete your copy of > the message, > and accept my apologies for any inconvenience caused. > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------- > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
