Michael Salish wrote:

> The net effect is that when you check in a 20-40MB 'file' the SCS can
> take a very long time to determine the differences. So make one tiny
> change and you are looking at a time-wasting process to check it back
> in. 

I run my repository on a 350 MHz Win2k server, and there's no appreciable
time (seconds at most) for committing my files. I don't use DDBs, though, I
use file system-based projects. A 40 MB single DDB file may take a bit
longer; that's true.

> We use Visual Source Safe and it also has it's own issues. 

Tell me about it :)  VSS is known to be prone to data loss, mainly because
it's not a client-server architecture. The program used on the user's
computer accesses the repository on the server directly (through network
share access). One hiccup in the file write and the repository needs to be
repaired. This is especially problematic with off-site VPN access.

> Bottom line is the risk of loss goes up and the time is increased by
> using a single DDB. 

I'm using CVSNT and never had any data loss caused by working with the
repository. But you are completely right in that DDBs don't make sense for
using with a version control system, whichever it is.

Gerhard

 
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