We are a company, working on small and some huge project. Sometimes on one project are more developers 5, 10, 20 etc.
We are searching for an effective revision control system with best optional properties:
Performance issues – one file size, complex directory structure
Scalability – support for 5, 10, 25 developers, 10, 50, 200 projects
Merging of branches
Revisioning and marking of code changes
Statistics and report for developers, leaders, vendors, leader development, customer etc.
Supporting the development of various technologies– .NET, JAVA, PHP, Oracle, Delhpi, ABAP / SAP.
At this moment we are deciding between SVN, VSS, Rational rose, ClearCase and JIRA. Does some of this solutions support bug tracing and knowledge base repository?
Maybe someone has experiences on this topic and could give proposals.
Thanks in advance.
Best regards.
I have worked on SVN, VSS and clearcase in various companies which I have worked with. I have always felt SVN is the best among these. However there are some better distributed version control tools(like mercurial, git, bazaar) available in the these days which you might want to consider too.
Here are my views primaryly on SVN/clearcase:
Performance issues
SVN: I have seen that subversion can handle things up to a single file size of 2GB. Complex directory structure does not matter for subversion as it is
Clearcase: I have seen performance/network problems in clearcase in handling huge files/repositories. In my case it was a NFS mount in my windows system and it had made things terribly slow while perfoming builds.
Scalability
Both SVN & clearase have good scalability options. However svn has pretty good community and support over the internet which lacks for clearcase. However in case of clearcase you will have a paid support and quick resolution for any scalability problems.
Merging of branches
Clearcase is a clear winner in this case. Clearcase for a while has a pretty good merge capablities. SVN is still improving on this front, but there has been a major contribution to the svn merge feature in the recent past.
Revisioning and marking of code changes
IMO, its pretty much the same between clearase and svn. But the conventions are a little different.
Statistics and report
clearcase has good reporting capabilities, better than svn. However I have felt clearcase is a over killer in this case. SVN has a lot of simple reporting tools(like glassfish) which are capable of providing neat reports.
Supporting the development of various technologies
I have worked on most of the technologies above but I believe both the tools have decent support for all possible environment( like Visual Studio, eclipse, etc)
BTW, rational rose is a UML tool, not related to versioning. JIRA is a bug tracking tool, it integrates well with SVN. I would recommend you look at trac for integrating with svn.
Hope the above helps