To All, Havin had some problems over the last few days with Visual Sourcesafe which resulted in be resorting to security copies as opposed to the previous version(s) of files that I thought were safe, I've been reading some comments in the Coding Horror Blog at: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000660.html <http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000660.html> linking to a few articles about the various types of Source Control available. It is well worth a read for those of you who either DON'T use source control or who are looking at an alternative to VSS.
Source control is a little like backups. Not important until you need the facility and a disaster if it doesn't work the first time you really need it. Up to this point I've never had a problem with VSS but this time the Databases of changes became corrupt and(this must have happened some time ago) and only came to notice when I wanted to go back to a previous version of a project from 4 months ago. Hence the resort to good old backups as the error in the database had just perpetuated itself. Dave Crozier The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and to lie about your age -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.10.10/419 - Release Date: 15/08/2006 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
