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Hi everyone,

I am currently looking for a good open source (free) version control system for commercial usage. As per current, there is CVS with its wincvs/smartcvs client which works pretty cool. However, the tool lacks good file locking mechanism (or not that I know of) as supported by PVCS or Visual Source Safe. I would get to know some other alternatives to cvs. If you have some in your mind, please share :-)

Thank you very much for your assistance. Again, I'd really appreciate any help.

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File locking is a Bad Thing. Do yourself a favor, and try using CVS or its newer cousin Subversion. You'll find your team's productivity improves.
 
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We are a team of 20 and in the middle of build period. And what happens is that most of us overwrite each other's version. Further, there are a lot of files that we share and often alter. We end up tracing which files of which version causing compiliation error or runtime error.

Originally posted by Ernest Friedman-Hill:
File locking is a Bad Thing. Do yourself a favor, and try using CVS or its newer cousin Subversion. You'll find your team's productivity improves.


[ November 08, 2004: Message edited by: Hardy Chou ]
 
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Yes, file locking is indeed bad.

Get the Subversion documentation to read a good discussion that explains why it is bad.

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Originally posted by Hardy Chou:
We are a team of 20 and in the middle of build period. And what happens is that most of us overwrite each other's version. Further, there are a lot of files that we share and often alter. We end up tracing which files of which version causing compiliation error or runtime error.


Well, that's what you get if developers don't merge but decide to overwrite instead. That's not what version control systems are for (although that's how oh-so-many projects use their version control systems -- as a glorified backup system).

You might want to consider running a continuous build off of the latest code in version control and have it raise hell if someone put in code that doesn't compile or doesn't pass all tests.
 
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