Re: [NF] Team Foundation Server

Author: MB Software Solutions, LLC

Posted: 2013-02-01 at 13:52:45

On 2/1/2013 2:32 PM, Ted Roche wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:03 PM, Alan Lukachko <

> al@software-strategies-na.com> wrote:

>

>> Is anyone using Team Foundation Server for source control of Visual FoxPro

>> projects? Any pros and cons on using it?

>>

>> If not, what is an alternative with pros and cons?

>>

>>

> Rick Borup is a fan of Mercurial. He's done some presentations on it. You

> ought to be able to find them on the Internets.

>

> Any distributed version control system (DVCS) like Mercurial, bazaar or git

> is superior to a client-server model like TFS, CVS or SourceSafe.

>

I'm betting the logic/code required/written for such systems is very

complex. Makes my head hurt just thinking of how to handle all the

merging! Flat-out replacements are easy, but those merges, ...<shudder>

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