Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Comparison of VSS, CVS and SVN

I have prepared a comparison among the three commonly used Version Control Systems Visual SourceSafe (VSS), CVS and Subversion.

The weights and scores are based on my judgement. I think this type weight scores based comparison may help you in convincing people (e.g. your project team, colleages, senior mgmt in your company) to use Subversion.

Total Score
Subversion : 251
CVS : 171
Visual SourceSafe(VSS) : 138

Check it out at Comparison of VSS, CVS and SVN
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4 comments:

  1. phaedrusApril 7, 2009 at 10:59 AM

    Have you thought about true distributed SCM's like git? Another very interesting distributed SCM is Darcs with a lovely patch mechanism. It would be interesting to see how this scales up against non-distributed systems, even in centralized authoring networks.

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  2. phaedrusApril 9, 2009 at 1:53 PM

    Have you studied the effectiveness of distributed SCM's like git or Darcs? I wonder if there is reason to recommend their use.

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  3. Ashish SarodeApril 9, 2009 at 2:55 PM

    Can you please add GIT to this comparison?
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)

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  4. Nitin BhideApril 13, 2009 at 9:35 AM

    I did not include distributed version control systems the Git, Darcs, Bzr or Mercurial mainly because I don't have any first hand experience working with them. Without experience, it is difficult to assign weights to each factor.

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