::No VS.Net integration. This is more like the CVS model (edit-merge-continue)
Disqualifies it for me. I want checkouts to be done from within the IDE. I want my "open solution from source control" and stuff like this IN The ide.
fabrice: where is there scc supprt? in accurev?
not to be a biggot -- but a java app? No thanks...
We've been using Accurev for over a month, and I don't want to go back. If you have one or two developers per project, then Accurev isn't for you. Or if you use SourceSafe just for a backup model to allow you to go back to previous versions, then Accurev isn't for you. But if you have 5 or more developers, or lots of projects that share various versions of code, this is absolutely the best product I've ever seen.
Accurev works on entire trees of source code, so the check-in, check-out model is really not needed. You make modifications to a personal stream of code, then you promote those changes up the hiearchy of streams until you get the changes to the build or integration stream. Every developer can have his own stream to make changes. After the changes have been unit tested we promote them to integration where every three weeks we do a build from a milestone stream. It really is quite a revolutionary way of looking at source control. It really doesn't do justice to call it source control as much as it is project code management and versioning system.
As for the integration, I've turned off SCC in VS and things are so much faster now. I use the Accurev interface to do all the promotions. Yes it's a java app, and it's one of the better ones I've worked with (but that's not saying much). The GUI has a few glitches, but one of the nice things about a new app is getting to drive the way it works.
Streams? Seems like a lot of extra work. We have had great luck with CVSNT, it's a no-brainer. SCC integration and Shell Integration. It has a COM based extension model and reliable atomic transactions. No crazy databases and you branch when you want to.
This new version control system seems to be selling eye-candy more than anything.