Re: Versioning repository for docs

[Sean Wheller <sean -at- inwords -dot- co -dot- za>]

On Wednesday 28 September 2005 03:30, Susan Scott wrote:
> At previous tech writing jobs we used Microsoft's Visual Source Safe
> for doc control and tracking.
>
> However, my current company is trying to get me to use a freeware
> product called Subversion. It was written for tracking code and is,
> even with the UI provided by Tortoise SVN, a horrible tool to use (the
> very name should give you a clue!).
>
> Does anyone know of any decent freeware out there? How I long for VSS
> again but have no idea if this can be purchased from MS as a stand
> alone product.

Subversion is actually a very good version control system and there are many 
GUI front-end tools to it. There is even one that integrates with MS Visual 
Studio.

Given a choice between SVN and VSS, I choose SVN. I don't like Tortoise SVN 
so, when using GUI, my front-end of choice is eSVN 
[http://esvn.umputun.com/].

Hope this helps.

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