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Cross Platform Version Control Systems?

Posted by Cliff on from the writing-your-code-on-more-than-one-system-at-a-time dept.

ignipotentis asks: "I've been given the task to find a multi-platform (windows, macintosh, linux) version control system. Currently, CVS is being used, and it isn't working quite as we expected it to. We are creating large Flash files and CVS is having problems keeping everything straight. It apparently doesn't like the large file sizes. I was wondering what other decent version control software is available that doesn't require a huge sum of money?"

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  1. Don't store the generated files in CVS by iangoldby · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I don't know Flash, so I may be completely off-target here, but that's never stopped anyone on Slashdot before, so here goes...

    It may be that instead of storing the Flash binary files in CVS, you should really only be storing the scripts/sources/etc that generate the Flash file. This would be analagous to storing the text source files of a C program, but not the generated object files or the executable.

    As a general rule, I never store anything that can be regenerated by the build system in a CVS archive.