REQ: Visual SourceSafe like system for linux and other clients.

[Stephen J. Thompson]

Hello all,

I am looking for a version control package similar to Visual
SourceSafe. I would like the storage to be on a Linux server, and the
clients would be windows 95/98/NT and Linux (KDE). The client would
need a GUI along the lines of VSS.

Can anyone point me to a package that can meet these requirements.
Tutorials and good instructions would also be helpful.

Thanks in advance.

Stephen.

[Warren Postma]

The closest you'll find to this right now is TkCvs.

Warren

[Bob Beaty]

In <3sl68sg7jdq49iejr...@4ax.com> Stephen J. Thompson
wrote:

> I am looking for a version control package similar to Visual
> SourceSafe. I would like the storage to be on a Linux server, and the
> clients would be windows 95/98/NT and Linux (KDE). The client would
> need a GUI along the lines of VSS.

While I realize it violates the 'storage to be on Linux' issue, I use
SourceOffSite which connects to any Visual SourceSafe 5.0 or 6.0
(different versions) database. There are two parts: the server and the
client. The client runs on Solaris, Linux, and Win95/98/NT and looks as
close to VSS as possible. The server runs on NT (so far as I know) and it
does *not* have to be the same server as the one with the VSS Database.

There is a tremendous advantage to this configuration - it's true
client/server.

When I used to use VSS it would take me 40 min. to check in a large Visio
drawing. Now with SOS it's less than 4 min. I'm impressed beyond words.
I'm assuming they're sending my check-in to the server and doing the
diffs and checkin there, but what do I care - it's fast.

So... if you can live with a VSS database (which is a limitation in my
environment) at least you don't loose the ability to chekc-in/check-out
with this product.

Look at http://www.sourceoffsite.com/ for more...

Thanks,
Bob (bobb...@mediaone.net)
The Man from S.P.U.D.
We will write no code before it's designed.