I have recently joined a small development team that is considering a new version control system. As it is part of a large organisation, we are likely to adopt the company standard of Rational Team Concert.
I have recommended that they should choose something much simpler, but I will probably not get my way.
I have a major concern that it will not play nicely with ReSharper, and will force me to change the way I work. I use ReSharper quite heavily to perform refactoring and have it create and move files for me.
Will I be able to do this with RTC? What is the friction like?
As a footnote, the team is currently using ClearCase (clearly suckers for punishment), and my ability to do refactoring is severely hampered. I cannot even create project folders and move files from within Visual Studio, let alone have ReSharper do this…
ReSharper shouldn’t interfere with your Version Control software in any way.
I’ve used ClearCase with ReSharper in the past and didn’t notice any friction. The only thing that I can think of is that you were using the ClearCase plugin for Visual Studio in which case I would advise you to stop.
As long as you use the Source Control application for checkins/checkouts/commits/etc, you should be good to go.