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Re: Visual SourceSafe for Documentation Source Control
Subject:Re: Visual SourceSafe for Documentation Source Control From:Sean Wheller <sean -at- inwords -dot- co -dot- za> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 24 Oct 2005 14:57:20 +0200
On Monday 24 October 2005 14:18, Katherine Turner wrote:
> I have recently started working for a small financial software company who
> are storing their source code in Visual SourceSafe.
>
> The documentation, mostly .DOC, is being stored on the network in multiple
> locations with multiple versions. I have suggested that a source control
> program is used.
VSS is a source control program :-)
> I now need to go back to the company with some proposals.
>
> The company are reluctant to spend very much money on buying new source
> control software specifically for documentation.
Try Subversion, free and open source. Has tools for developers using Visual
Studio.
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