Sourcegear's Vault is a compelling Visual Source Safe alternative

Sourcegear has an SCM solution called Vault that has a few big things going for it as a VSS alternative:

  • You can import VSS projects
  • It can work alongside VSS, so you don’t have to import all your VSS projects
  • It’s easy to use and familiar to VSS users
  • It integrates into the Visual Studio IDE (if you’re into that)
  • You can connect to it remotely over HTTP or HTTPS
  • It’s cheap (free for a single user, $300 per user after that. VSS is ~$500/user)

I’m working on a small project now where the other developer is using Vault for source control, so this gives me a good chance to check it out. I’ll also probably use Subversion and VSS 2005 for other projects.

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