William Couture wrote:
> While I have worked at companies that used it, I have personally never
> used it, and will never encourage any company that I work for to use
> it.
>
> Why?
>
> Because it can leave you with irretrievable source code.

This is a closed source problem, not a version control problem, and it
goes way beyond version control.  The same is true of almost any older,
closed-source application.

And in most of the older version control systems, the code can be
retrieved with a little scripting even if the version control program is
lacking.

Being an old fogey and having been through more platforms than I can
count, I try pretty hard to stick to applications that are
platform-agnostic.  That old code especially is valuable.  Although not
every day, from time to time I find myself grabbing code from a project
several platforms ago, rather than writing new.

For ages I used RCS, which is quite old, but has the feature of being
available on practically every platform known to man.  I have a few old
repos that migrated from DOS to Windows to OS/2 to VMS back to Windows to
Linux, all with no conversion.

Personally, I am getting to really like git, which doesn't have this
feature of an almost human-readable repository, but the convenience is
terrific, and I can mirror my repos on gitorious or github and have
convenient offsite backup as well.  Pity MPLAB doesn't directly interface
with git, but it's no real biggie to update from the remote repo manually.

--McD



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