RE: Visual SourceSafe/other doc control apps

["Susan W. Gallagher" <sgallagher5 -at- cox -dot- net>]

Yabbut, that's the way binaries are stored in all version control
systems; otherwise it would take three weeks to check in a doc. Only
text files are delta'd, and then only simple text files, not stuff
like .rtf, which might as well be binary. Version and access control
systems are not about saving disk space; disk space is cheap. They're
about safeguarding data and providing easy access to information and
facilitating team development and they're wonderful. But if you're
likely to skimp on disk space, forget it.

I personally have a 20G backup disk and a version control
system installed on my personal machine. Once you've worked
with such systems for any length of time, you learn to rely
on them. I'd find it hard to work without one.

I've used VSS and I've used CVS and I've documented and used StarTeam.
They all have good and bad points, but they all work just fine. And
Documentum is an excellent system and enormously expensive and serious
overkill for most situations.

My two cents. YMMV
-Sue Gallagher