free program like sourcesafe?

right now I use winrar to autorar the files and email them to an account that servers only to archive files, but obviously that is not the best way to do it.

I am a one person team so the above method suffices, but it is a pain when a number of changes are made on the development version of a program and you don't want to have painfully try to copy all the files to the live site to have to make all the now required config changes (another posted question).

Is cvs what I am looking for? I am mainly involved in asp.net projects.

Thanks for any tips

Moved from the Lounge.

Any source management system is better that VSS IMHO

CVS, RCS, sourceforge is full of 'em, find one that works for you now and in the future.
VSS "used to be prone" to fups, haven't used it since

--Ax

[edit]coder/pete you could let the dust settle on these, people come to the lounge because they expectus to know the difference

--intixicated not me
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thanks for the input. All I can say is that TortoiseCVS is a truly amazing program

CVS is probably the most widely used open source version control system, but it is getting a bit long in the tooth and is lacking some important features.

Subversion has been designed as a replacement for CVS, and is rapidly gaining in popularity. It adds some of the features missing in CVS, such as atomic commits and the ability to move/rename files and folders. The latter is vital for agile projects that use refactoring a lot, especially in languages like Java which force you to name files after the classes in them. Subversion is also better suited for single developers, as it has a 'stand alone' mode as well as a client/server mode. It is what I use for my home projects.

AS Axweildr says, there are many, many alternatives, but these two are probably the "market leaders", if that term means anything for open source software.

Dave - The Developers' Coach

If I didn't get everything set up with cvs I would definately take a look at the subversion. One thing that I like about the tortoise is that it also allows for stand-alone projects.

Thanks for the links though, I might still use it in the future.

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