I have used Sourcegear’s Vault for about 3 years now at work. I have recently started a project on my own and, of course, want to use a SCM. I decided to try Perforce, since the product if free for two users and five work spaces. Well, I just didn’t get it, I figure I just not smart enough to use the product. I couldn’t even submit the intial load of the repository without having to read the manual. The one thing that really turned me off, it that I had to check out a file to edit it. When I forced to overwrite the file anyway, Perforce didn’t noticed that it changed. I am sure I wasn’t doing somthing properly, but these are issues I never had with Vault. I grew up in the world of CVS, where everyone has there own copy of the codebase and are responsible for incorporating the latest changes from the repository before checking in there changes. So you are probably asking why I just didn’t use Vault? Simple enough, I wanted to try something different. So I have, I am not that crazy about it, and I am going back to Vault, which by they way is free for a single user also. The one thing I will say about Perforce over Vault is that it seems much less system intensive and has less hardware requirements.
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Sunday, February 18, 2007 at 17:05:16
Stig Brautaset
If you’re not done experimenting you may want to try Subversion and / or SVK. You can run your own server for free (with unlimited accounts) or you can let other people host it for you (for a fee, I believe).
Disclaimer: I am an occasional contributor to SVK, so I might be considered biased. I’ve posted some reasons why I like SVK on my blog.
Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 12:12:07
Paul
You should check out Evolution from ionForge: http://www.ionforge.com
Much easier than Perforce, faster and less system instensive than Vault. If you’re use to Vault it should be an easy switch. I know several people who used Vault and have switched. Oh, and Evolution is also free for a single user. Try it out, you’ll be happy you did.
Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 14:02:59
brettski111
I have experimented with Subversion, not exactly the easiest to install, plus I will have to check to see if they have a windows version. I am not really in the mood to setup a Linux box right now. Just too many machines to have running in a house. I guess I could always use a VMM. I have never used SVK, I will check it out.
Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 15:03:01
brettski111
Thank you Paul, I will check out Evolution.