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    Version Control Application VB6

    need a starting point basically needs to be able to back up a file/s or folders, check in check out, control users and version control, lock if user has the files out, report let them know who, central archive if need to roll back, etc etc any help on some source files to get me started.
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    Re: Version Control Application VB6

    Thread moved from the 'CodeBank VB6' forum (which is for you to post working code examples, not questions) to the 'VB6 and earlier' forum

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    Re: Version Control Application VB6

    can any one help
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    Re: Version Control Application VB6

    really need a software version control in vb6 so can backup files, folder and lock increment backups have login access and reports who has file out what changes where made really need help with this !!
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    Re: Version Control Application VB6

    If this is for "offline-usage on Windows" (in a LAN for example) -
    then I'd take a look at Fossil: https://www.fossil-scm.org

    Fossil is more feature-rich than GIT, but has a very small footprint (installation-wise... the Windows-version is only about 1.8MB).
    A graphical User-Interface is provided over a built-in WebServer - so you can host it e.g. in a VB-App (over a Browser-Control).

    Though in case you have no problem with "hosting your main-repo online",
    then I'd use one of the larger Web-based solution-providers as GitHub or BitBucket...
    This way you'd have "the leading source-archive" already "backed up on a different host-machine" (online) -
    but can nevertheless always work "offline" with checked-out versions on different local machines.

    As for "tight integration into the VB6-IDE" ... I'm not aware of any decent (free) IDE-Addins,
    which can interact with the VB6-IDEs Project-File-Tree <--> and one of these modern Online-Repos...

    The only Addin which had that kind of tight integration, was the one which came with the
    VisualStudio 6 Enterprise-packages (MS-Visual-SourceSafe): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micros...ual_SourceSafe


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    Re: Version Control Application VB6

    One problem with a lot of these tools is that they were not designed to cope with VB's identifer case-insenstivity.

    So a minor change that causes some identifier to be recased (e.g. WobbleCrank to Wobblecrank) gets picked up as a giant patch including every altered line of code. A similar problem can occur when you want to recase everywhere and it doesn't get picked up on.

    I seem to recall that some of these tools also get screwed up stumbling over VB's line-continuations or something.

    The old Visual SourceSafe was one of the few that was VB-aware. I'm sure there were others but I can't say which are still around and viable for VB6. Perhaps any that support VB.Net would be good enough though.

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    Re: Version Control Application VB6

    ive been looking and found a file management application but didn't work quite rite, is there anything in VB which I could customise, sample was using a access database but only worked to one directory need it to save back to original path afterwards
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    Re: Version Control Application VB6

    its not version control of VB, but version control of a file or folder, lock out when updating then increments and upload back, will have to put a logon front end etc but need something that works out of the box so can customise
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    Re: Version Control Application VB6

    Start here for all kind of alternatives for Visual Source Safe:
    http://alternativeto.net/software/mi...al-sourcesafe/

    SubVersion:
    http://subversion.apache.org/

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    Re: Version Control Application VB6

    gonna have a look at source safe, but would mean have to install on other pc`s for everyone to use?
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    Re: Version Control Application VB6

    if you look on here the best thing I could find was on plant source code was called

    File/Document Management System

    however only let me use one and was set in directory which couldn't change as need to do plant, line machine and backup directory structure
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    Re: Version Control Application VB6

    yeah offline and lock out think best to keep info in an access database for recording sourcesafe seems to show in *.ini files
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    Re: Version Control Application VB6

    still didn't get any further on with this? anyone got a VB6 app which could start me off
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