tfs vs svn performace over WAN

Question

CAn someone please let me know what is performance of TFS vs SVN over the WAN. I have a scenario where we have multiple teams set up accross geography. Can someone help me decide on what to use?

More sepcifically i would like to know about TFS 2008 performance. From reading on internet, i understand that TFS 2005 was really bad on WAN. But wanted to know if anyone has seen any major improvements in TFS 2008 performance?

Answer 1

TFS is not really designed to work off-line (even though it is possible to work around that).

Subversion is therefore a better choice when working with an unreliable/slow connection. Modern version control tools like mercurial or git are even better in this regard.

That being said, I'm not sure the comparison is useful. Subversion is just a version control system. TFS contains a version control system, build server, issue tracker, project reporting and data collection services, sharepoint repository etcetera.

Answer 2

This sounds like you want to consider a distributed version control system (dvcs). This works very well as developers can continue to work without internet access and many other advantages.

One that seems to be gaining a lot of traction for developing on Windows is GitHub combined with GitExtensions for Visual Studio (given your reference to Tfs I'm making the assumption this is your setup). Git has a different background but many MS stack projects are moving to it, especially in the scenario you describe and open source ones.