How to Set up a Source Control on Windows without spending a dime.
by Jason Clark on December 28, 2004 9:00 PM EST- Posted in
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Although Tortoise CVS is a very slick piece of software, developers may want to connect to CVS from within a Development Environment such as Visual Studio, Dreamweaver, Eclipse, etc. Below is a list of some popular Development Environments and links to tutorials on getting CVS integrated into them. If your Development Environment isn't listed, do a search on Google. Chances are that someone has found a way to get CVS integrated.Microsoft Visual Studio
http://www.codeproject.com/macro/CVS_with_VSNET.asp
http://www.kryptonians.net/cvs/wincvs_and_ide.html
Eclipse
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/platform-vcm-home/docs/online/cvs_features2.0/cvs-faq.html?rev=1.2
http://help.eclipse.org/help30/index.jsp
Macromedia Dreamweaver
http://www.grafxsoftware.com/product.php?id=22
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skunkbuster - Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - link
cute turtle !!viscount1baby - Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - link
Source Gear Vault (http://www.sourcegear.com/) is free for a single user. Much better if your just looking for something for yourself for home usage. It stores it's content is a sql server database too, so backup is a snap.starjax - Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - link
they all provide the same funtionality. cvsnt probably has the most documentation. and if you need to eventually use it on more systems, its scalability is cheaper.Pauli - Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - link
Hey starjax (or anyone else reading this) - I have been using Clearcase for years at work (Windows environment). Which of these free tools is closest to the Clearcase environment? I am looking only for a system that will be run on a single XP PC.starjax - Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - link
clearcase.... expensive, administrative heavy, resource heavy (server side). Used only in environments where there are many software/revisions to track. WHere I work we have the largest install base for clearcase and run the largest vob's (up to 100gig). yes thats what I said. most vobs are aroun 3-4 gigs.JCheng - Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - link
Here's a list of improvements Subversion holds over CVS:http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.0/ch01s03.html
For me, it's hard to imagine using source control without atomic commits (which SVN has and CVS doesn't), but then, I cut my teeth on Perforce which has had them forever.
neogodless - Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - link
Well I can't get past the step of creating my first module... "bad login or user" sort of error every time. No idea how to get past that. There's nowhere to even enter a password....Jason Clark - Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - link
WooDaddy, never used ClearCase.. Either CVS or Subversion should handle just about any project though.Jason Clark - Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - link
ncage, yep the old visual source safe was a joke. However, from what i hear the new Team System stuff coming out with Visual Source Safe 2005 is supposed to be very slick. I linked to it in alternative source control products.WooDaddy - Wednesday, December 29, 2004 - link
How does this compare to ClearCase?