Don't forget Arch!  It allows you to have repositories on every 
machine, and then have those synchronize with a central repository, if I 
understand correctly.  Also, Arch has true atomic operations, so you won't have 
problems with accessing files.

        http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/

On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 03:31:31PM -0500, Rob Diana wrote:
> 
> We were recently in this situation using Visual Source Safe. The easiest way 
> to 
> remedy this is to use something like CVS or Subversion. Both are
> freely available
> and have add-on tools for use on windows. Some dev tools (Eclipse especially)
> have plugins to work directly with CVS and Svn.
> 
> 
> On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 20:13:57 -0000, xperroni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > My development team and I have recently ran into a problem with our
> > set of development (JDeveloper) and version management (MS Source
> > Safe) tools. It's become frequent the situation where two programmers
> > must have write access to the same file; however, Source Safe's
> > approach to code management is to never let more than one user write
> > to anything at the same time.
> > 
> > The approach advogated by XP -- let everyone write to files and then
> > solve conflicts at code releasing time -- seemed a good solution. In
> > eXtreme Programming Installed there is a very interesting description
> > of a code management policy, but it is admitedly a simplified
> > explanation. What references (specific or not) you recommend on the
> > subject of code management? Are there any commentaries or personal
> > experience you'd want to share?
> > 
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