My team is currently using Visual Sourcesafe and is very familiar with how terrible the first-hand GUI is and, having heard the internet mummer about how unreliable it is, I tried to click on SVN.
Today I talked with the manager about the possible move that he supports, and he asked if it is possible to create styleafe links in SVN. Links for people new to sourceafe work just as conceptually as links to files on Linux. We use them to link common code / libraries between projects. I explained that it was not possible to create links using SVN, and he explained that this could be the main point when migrating.
I told him that in my local SVN (which I continue to facilitate my development by periodically checking in sourcesafe), I place the common code / libraries in one place and send the ANT to this location. However, I realized that this solution was not very impressive, as it complicates the tasks of ANT. Personally, I think it's worth having a slightly more complex ANT script, having a bunch of link files in source control, but it really is a question of what kind of paradigm you are signing.
I wonder how developers generally work on this limitation and create new version control systems like Git and Mercurial support links?
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