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I feel blessed to have started with SVN and Source Depot (msft) and only come across CVS and Perforce on rare occasions.
by keithnoizu 7y ago
I feel blessed to have started with SVN and Source Depot (msft) and only come across CVS and Perforce on rare occasions.
- robaato 7y agoSource Depot == Perforce
- hyperrail 7y agoSource Depot is very similar to Perforce since sd started as a p4 fork. Incidentally, I remember one person at Microsoft who claimed to be involved in the decision to adopt sd circa 1999 saying that Microsoft has the right to turn sd into a product if it so chooses. (He/she was responding to contrary claims made on an internal email mailing list which was very widely read, so I assume if he/she was misremembering or lying he/she would have been called out.) Though ultimately MSFT made VSTS/TFS version control instead, which has striking resemblances in concepts to sd/p4.
- keithnoizu 7y agoInteresting. It wasn't a bad solution at the time, being able to pass around commits was nice and more straight forward than the patch mechanism on svn. Git and Mercurial were significantly superior solutions though.