Thanks to Peter,Curt,Troy,Vijay,Damian.
The conclusion seems to be that VSS 5.0 is the best bet if integration with
the Studio is important. open-source CVS or high-profile ClearCase would
have been the options otherwise.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Cheung [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 9:08 AM
> To: 'Curt Springer'; 'Aby Mathew'
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [ND] Source control system for ND4/5
>
>
> We have been very lucky using VSS 5.0 with ND 4.1.3.
> We have been using it since 1/98
> Now some project have up to 6 individuals who have copies and
> check things
> in/out.
> We have over 6 projects and some are quite large.
> There have been about 10 times in 2 years that nd projects
> are corrupted.
> I believe they are all due to ND studio errors and not source
> code control.
> We have in 2 years never have to do anything in visul source
> safe to recover
> any errors.
> There have only been one case (one week ago) that I have to
> reboot the NT
> server because I cannot add new objects to a project. This I
> believe was
> due to one individual who have check in some objects using a
> date of 1/7/00.
> He try to recover by changing things directly in vss and end
> up with a whole
> bunch of other problems (inculding objects check out in his
> studio which are
> uncheck out in vss)
> But that lead me to worry about y2k. Is the problem I saw a
> result of just
> wrong date or a result of dates in year 2000.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curt Springer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 7:15 AM
> To: Aby Mathew
> Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: Re: [ND] Source control system for ND4/5
>
>
> We used open-source cvs, but not integrated with the ND studio.
>
> From glancing at comments on the list, it does not appear
> that studio
> integration of source code control is smooth, no matter which
> product you
> use.
>
> There are 2 related things that make life difficult:
>
> 1. The fileset for an ND application object is objectname.* plus
> links/<significantnumber>_<less significantnumber>.sid
>
> thus some sort of mapping needs to be done between the .sid
> file and the
> rest of the files. With cvs, this was accomplished via a yellow pad.
>
> 2. If you change one app object, ND will often or at least sometimes
> regenerate the .sid files for app objects you did not change,
> in a way that
> does not affect how ND processes the file, but which is detected as a
> change by version control systems. I think it reorders the
> contents of the
> file. If 2 people are working on different objects and doing
> an "update
> all" to the repository, conflicts will be detected if by
> chance, both local
> ND studios happen to regenerate the same .sid file for an object that
> neither person is intentionally changing in the studio.
>
> -- Curt, Team ND
>
>
> At 07:09 PM 12/14/99 -0800, Aby Mathew wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Anybody has a recommendation for a neat Version Control
> system for ND4, one
> >that integrates well with the ND Studio?
> >
> >My client is thinking about PVCS, VSS etc, but why re-invent
> the wheel when
> >there are people out there with experiences of the good, bad
> and the ugly?
> >
> >Thanks for all your feedback.
> >
> >Aby
> >
> >
> >
> >
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