Comments on: Visual Studio: TFS or SVN? http://richarddingwall.name/2009/07/28/visual-studio-tfs-or-svn/ The adventures of a young kiwi software developer in London Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:56:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: GloryDev http://richarddingwall.name/2009/07/28/visual-studio-tfs-or-svn/comment-page-1/#comment-14339 GloryDev Fri, 07 May 2010 15:18:52 +0000 http://richarddingwall.name/?p=1594#comment-14339 We Get TFS for free (microsoft ...xyz whatever partners) so the pricing is not an issue. We still use SVN and TortoiseSVN. It just works better and easier. I hate the file locking rubish in VSS. We Get TFS for free (microsoft …xyz whatever partners) so the pricing is not an issue.
We still use SVN and TortoiseSVN. It just works better and easier. I hate the file locking rubish in VSS.

]]> By: Wes http://richarddingwall.name/2009/07/28/visual-studio-tfs-or-svn/comment-page-1/#comment-9053 Wes Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:24:44 +0000 http://richarddingwall.name/?p=1594#comment-9053 TFS still needs a lot of work to justify any penny being spent on it over a free solution. SVN and Git are great technologies to work with and have free implementations. TFS's licensing per user encourages bad practices with check ins. It also is missing the externals linking that svn has. I find the user experience with locking files (marking them read only) is insanely annoying when I go offline. I've had to actually go unlock a file to edit it in some spots of VS. The checkout comparison tool when you come online is a pain to work with too. All of the integration means nothing when you have a slick tool like Tortoise to compare to. To be honest, part of why I dread working with TFS is because of it's child like interface in VS. Some of the things I complain about probably have a setting buried somewhere, even if they do, then they shouldn't be _ON_ by default! TFS still needs a lot of work to justify any penny being spent on it over a free solution. SVN and Git are great technologies to work with and have free implementations. TFS’s licensing per user encourages bad practices with check ins. It also is missing the externals linking that svn has. I find the user experience with locking files (marking them read only) is insanely annoying when I go offline. I’ve had to actually go unlock a file to edit it in some spots of VS. The checkout comparison tool when you come online is a pain to work with too. All of the integration means nothing when you have a slick tool like Tortoise to compare to. To be honest, part of why I dread working with TFS is because of it’s child like interface in VS.

Some of the things I complain about probably have a setting buried somewhere, even if they do, then they shouldn’t be _ON_ by default!

]]> By: Brendan Burns http://richarddingwall.name/2009/07/28/visual-studio-tfs-or-svn/comment-page-1/#comment-8770 Brendan Burns Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:46:39 +0000 http://richarddingwall.name/?p=1594#comment-8770 On a slight tangent, I have been using Perforce the last year and have been happy with it. It's fast and the Visual Studio integration is good. It has a license fee attached, though. On a slight tangent, I have been using Perforce the last year and have been happy with it. It’s fast and the Visual Studio integration is good. It has a license fee attached, though.

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