Comments on: Source Control - use it please! http://colrosa.co.uk/blog/software-development-source-control/ Business Focused Technical Advice Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:08:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Martyn Lovell http://colrosa.co.uk/blog/software-development-source-control/comment-page-1/#comment-189 Martyn Lovell Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:02:05 +0000 http://colrosa.co.uk/?p=101#comment-189 Of course, I'd recommend VSTS (which has a free 90 day trial http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts2008/products/cc268310.aspx). But from what I've heard Perforce may be a better choice than subversion at the lower end of the price range. It's actually free if you only have 2 users (http://www.perforce.com/perforce/price.html#license) or are shipping open source software (http://www.perforce.com/perforce/price.html#opensource). Either way, I agree with the main thrust -- software development without branching, merging, versioning source control isn't worth living... Martyn Of course, I’d recommend VSTS (which has a free 90 day trial http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts2008/products/cc268310.aspx).

But from what I’ve heard Perforce may be a better choice than subversion at the lower end of the price range. It’s actually free if you only have 2 users (http://www.perforce.com/perforce/price.html#license) or are shipping open source software (http://www.perforce.com/perforce/price.html#opensource).

Either way, I agree with the main thrust — software development without branching, merging, versioning source control isn’t worth living…

Martyn

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