I have attempted to use VSS's merge facility - but found it doing too much
automatically and the manual merging a bit hairy...

For any merging stuff we use BeyondCompare - this is simple to use and
reasonably priced.

Regards
Paul McKenzie
Analyst Programmer
SMSS Ltd.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Brennan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 10:12 AM
Subject: RE: [DUG] Source code control


> For what it's worth we have used VSS for years with multiple checkouts
> enabled. The merge functionality seems fairly robust. I can't recall any
> problems resulting from the automerge. There have been the odd occasions
> where a manual merge (which occurs when VSS can't automatically resolve
the
> differences) caused problems but it's really just a case of being careful
in
> these situations.
>
> David.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chris Milham
> > Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2004 9:19 AM
> > To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List'
> > Subject: RE: [DUG] Source code control
> >
> >
> > CVS (http://www.cvshome.org or http://www.cvsnt.org for Windows),
despite
> > its shortcomings, is very good. I use it with the TortoiseCVS client
> > (http://www.tortoisecvs.org, which integrates with the Windows
> > Shell and is
> > a very easy to use program. I use it both as a single user and within a
> > team. I recommend you get your head around the differences between the
CVS
> > paradigm (many people can edit the same file at once) and the VSS
paradigm
> > (only one person can edit a file at a time) before your start using it
> > (sorry, I have no good links for explaining further).
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Chris
> >
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > On Behalf Of Eric Tishler
> > > Sent: Wednesday, 31 March 2004 8:52 a.m.
> > > To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> > > Subject: [DUG] Source code control
> > >
> > > I have a pretty good sized Delphi (6) project that I will need to
> > > maintain, including versioning and source code control. Is there a
> > > recommended tool out there to use for this purpose? I have Visual
Source
> > > Safe, but I have only used that for Visual Basic and Visual C++.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know if it can be used with Delphi. Or, are there any
other
> > > suggestions?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Eric
> > >
> > > Eric Tishler
> > > Software Architect
> > > Resolute Partners, LLC
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