Articles filed in category 'Source Control'

Git for Subversion Users

By: Derick Bailey

Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2011 - May/June

Git has some similarities to Subversion, but it’s in the differences that Git shines. Derick looks at some of the features that Git provides, for which Subversion has no equivalent.

• Agile Development
• Development Process
• Git
• Source Control
• Subversion
• Version Control
• Workflow

Speed Up Project Delivery with Repeatability

By: Myers, Chad

Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2008 - November/December

Automate high-friction, unpredictable tasks in your environment to regain sanity and achieve a rapid, sustainable pace.Every environment has them: The dreaded manual tasks that drain productivity from the team and adds instability to the processes. We usually only dedicate half our brain power and never enough time to deal with them, which only compounds the problem. What if you could easily automate out the most painful tasks and gain a huge boost in productivity and speed of delivery?

• Build and Deploy
• Project Management
• Source Control
• Testing and Quality Control
• Tips

Die VSS Die!

By: Goodyear, Jonathan D

Last updated: Friday, May 8, 2026

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2004 - September/October

Jonathan D. Goodyear critiques Microsoft's continued support for Visual Source Safe (VSS), a widely recognized subpar version control system, despite the availability of more robust alternatives like the newly introduced Visual Studio 2005 Team System. He argues that VSS is outdated, inadequately scalable, and poorly suited to modern development needs, urging Microsoft to phase it out and prioritize universal access to their SQL Server-based version control and work item tracking tools. Goodyear advocates for fostering better development practices by providing high-quality tools to all developers, emphasizing that this approach could benefit Microsoft’s reputation and encourage adoption of premium offerings.

• Opinion
• Opinions
• Project Management
• Source Control

Collaborative Development Part 1 - Source Control

By: Clarke, Lauren, Jordan, Paul

Last updated: Friday, December 26, 2025

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2002 - March/April

Lauren Clarke argues that effective collaborative software development—especially for distributed teams—requires robust source control: she explains core versioning concepts, practical benefits (rollback, diffs, branching, sharing, deployment), and gives a how-to for Visual SourceSafe while evaluating SourceGear’s SOS Collab for remote access and integrated project tools, concluding that adopting automated version control is indispensable for team productivity and reliability.

• Development Process
• Source Control