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Dropping Evolution for Vault

Evolution, like Perforce, is good at the check-out / modify / check-in model of working. I don’t work that way though – I do modify / scan for changes / check in. While Evolution supports scanning for changes (which Perforce doesn’t really do) if it finds Renegade files you only have the option to merge […]

Evolution, like Perforce, is good at the check-out / modify / check-in model of working. I don’t work that way though – I do modify / scan for changes / check in. While Evolution supports scanning for changes (which Perforce doesn’t really do) if it finds Renegade files you only have the option to merge by hand and immediately change what is on the server. You cannot check out these files, nor is your change set atomic, nor can you submit comments with your check-in.

The merge tool that comes with Evolution is especially lame. All they did was take the freeware GPL merge tool and rename it. It doesn’t link in with the rest of Evolution because they’d have to make it open source. As a result, it is missing features such as the ability to see what version you are looking at if you do a diff in the history.

I’m dropping Evolution until a later date when they have time to polish it up. I’m going to give Vault another shot, since the more I use these other tools the more I still like Vault.

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