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I am about to start a project (.NET) and need to decide between TFS and SVN.
I am more used to SVN(with tortoise client), CVS and VSS. Does TFS have all features available in SVN
Have any of you switched from SVN to TFS and found it worthwhile?
Also it looks like we may need Visual Studio if we need to work with TFS.
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Money is not a consideration since we already have the licenses for TFS in place. And I am more interested in the Source Control features of TFS vs SVN, of course other features list is also welcome.
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TFS is an Application Lifecycle Management solution, SVN is source control only. TFS does source control as well as issue tracking, document management, reporting, continuous integration, virtual labs for testing etc. TFS's Source Control & SVN are both centralized source control.
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You should use Git for version control in your projects unless you have a specific need for centralized version control features in TFVC. In other words, if you have a very specific reason why you need to continue using TFVC, Microsoft would rather you didn't.
TFS is an Application Life-cycle Management solution, SVN and Git are source control only. TFS does source control as well as issue tracking, document management, reporting, continuous integration, virtual labs for testing etc. TFS's Source Control & SVN are centralized source control, Git is distributed.
Keep in mind that TFS includes bug tracking, work item tracking and other features beyond source control. If you have multiple branches or if you find yourself struggling against some lack of feature or other in Subversion then it might be a good idea to switch.
To stay fair, here are the two obvious drawbacks of TFS : Installing TFS is quite a pain, while SVN installation is a matter of minutes. Installing TFS 2008 over SqlServer 2008 is quite complicated, you cannot install TFS on a PDC, etc. To me, it’s definetely the worst installation experience I’ve ever had with a Microsoft product.
SVN integration into Visual Studio is incomplete to say the least (a lot of features aren’t available from the IDE), and a bit buggy (AnkhSVN certainly is), while TFS one is perfect (which makes sense…). I’ve had my whole workspace corrupted several times using SVN (during one month), never using TFS (aprox 2 years)
"One can not compare between TFS and SVN"
SVN: is Source Code Versioning System
TFS: is full fledged Software Development Management system which contains, Version control, Release management, Requirements tracking, Document publishing and other things.
Both have nice to use IDE integration add-ins(e.g. AnkhSVN, Collabnet's add-in) available for VS2005, so that is not the point to consider.
Criteria to consider for choice:
- If you have a no or small budget project choose SVN
- If you are only looking for version control system choose SVN, if you are looking for complete development management choose TFS
- If you have patience to juggle with different integration tools (CruiseControl.Net, NUnit, NCover, FIT) to achieve proper development environment choose SVN, or if you are looking for out of the box implementation of all these for you then choose TFS
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Having used TFS 18 months back I found it buggy, slow, annoying, very limited search criteria and it had the feel of a product rushed out by a team of un-interested, under paid, over worked techs being forced to use Sharepoint and other MS technologies because that's what marketing wanted. Seriously it was a dog, I would have rather used SourceSafe!
SVN on the other hand is bit techie, IDE integration is a pain, and it can occasionally get confused, but the user base is massive and most issue can get resolved with a quick SO quesition.
Have you considered Vault? Works well, and isn't too pricey.
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