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Re: Are there still people that don't use a Source Control solution of any kind? theitmueller24-Nov-13 23:21 theitmueller 24-Nov-13 23:21  You will be able to have local copies of your sourcecode. I am in the same situation, and to be honest: Visual Source Safe saved my ... more than once because I was able to track source changes to see when a modification was made or to simply "throw everything away" with a simple "undo check-out". Thomas Re: Are there still people that don't use a Source Control solution of any kind? Andreas Gieriet24-Nov-13 23:21 Andreas Gieriet 24-Nov-13 23:21  Use Git for that - it is made to (also) work offline. Source control is not for teams only and its main feature is not "backup" in the traditional sense. Beside several other features, a version control system allows: - encapsulating logically meningful and commented change sets (e.g. of several files) that allows to specifically roll back if needed - adding associations with issue tracking systems (the lowest level of intergation is to mention the fixed issues in the change set comment) - producing a worklog and/or create some kind of release notes - creating concurrently existing variants of the sources (AKA branching) - ... Ask yourself if you can achieve this with your backup "solution" - without re-inventing the wheel, i.e. without trying to mimic the version control systems featurs. Cheers Andi Re: Are there still people that don't use a Source Control solution of any kind? bluesathish24-Nov-13 23:27 bluesathish 24-Nov-13 23:27  ScottM1 wrote: I'm the only one who does .Net development at my company and so I manage all of my source code on my laptop with daily backups. Lets see some scenario why this source control is important. 1.If your laptop got corrupted or broken accidently then what you'll do? 2.If you'll make some changes and then you wants to rollback the same then how can you achieve this efficiently? copy the old files from your local backup wasn't a smart move! 3. If suppose you want to share your works to your colliques, then how can you splits and how you can integrate your codes after finishing it? The answers for all the above question is maintain your codes in Source control. I've working similarly what you're working now, but laterly i've realised the importance of source control. Now i've using SVN was the best. Regards, BlueSathish Re: Are there still people that don't use a Source Control solution of any kind? Albert Holguin26-Nov-13 4:46 Albert Holguin 26-Nov-13 4:46  Use something that doesn't have a central repository (i.e. Git, Mercurial). Don't forget constant backups take up way more space then if you were using source control (since source control only stores differences instead of entire backups). Plus, you have a bunch of added value, a complete history of development, ability to branch code off, ability to create tags for a complete history (i.e. you'll always have the source for every release you make, so you can even support multiple releases), easily see differences in files between any random points in time. There's a lot of value added, plus, most solutions are free... so you really don't have an excuse not to use them... Re: Are there still people that don't use a Source Control solution of any kind? PIEBALDconsult25-Nov-13 13:22 PIEBALDconsult 25-Nov-13 13:22  AlexCode wrote: No criticism Bullshit. Re: Are there still people that don't use a Source Control solution of any kind? AlexCode25-Nov-13 23:08 AlexCode 25-Nov-13 23:08  Really, I meant it. I'm not here and I'm no one to criticize anyone. I like to help and I rarely judge people... Rarely... As an IT professional I moved a lot (countries and projects) and I've been exposed to a lot of different ways of thinking. Some really good, others really bad but that's life and most of those really bad decisions had a really good explanation when they were taken. At the end, a Bad Decision is always better than a No Decision. Back to the subject, as the usage of an SCM is kind of an instinct to me, I'm curious why it isn't for so many people. That's all... no criticism! Re: Are there still people that don't use a Source Control solution of any kind? Nathan Holt25-Nov-13 14:52 Nathan Holt 25-Nov-13 14:52  I would guess that there are a few people who are new to programming and don't realize they need it yet. To iterate is human, to recurse divine. Re: Are there still people that don't use a Source Control solution of any kind? AlexCode25-Nov-13 23:01 AlexCode 25-Nov-13 23:01  I think the problem is way beyond noobs... From what I see the most affected are professionals that actually work alone or really small teams with no experienced guidance. SCM implementation is really a no brainer but if you never get exposed to it and don't have to curiosity chances are that you'll never reserve the time to implement it... at least not until something really bad happens... Re: Are there still people that don't use a Source Control solution of any kind? Nemanja Trifunovic26-Nov-13 9:24 Nemanja Trifunovic 26-Nov-13 9:24  My guess is that they are extremely smart people who can simply remember all code changes utf8-cpp

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