New to source control

[DeanMc]

Hi everyone,

I am pretty new to source control and have never actually used it. I am a single developer about to embark on a rather large project. I was thinking of using your products as they have gotten great reviews. What I would like to know is if I need both fortress and vault or is fortress like vault+

Also I only have one work PC which has windows 7 ultimate on it. Is it ok to install both the server and the client on the one machine?

Thanks for your time!

Dean

[lbauer]

You'll be interested in Eric Sink's Source Control HowTo:

http://www.ericsink.com/scm/source_control.html

Fortress has same the version control tools as Vault, but with integrated item tracking. So you need only Fortress. If you're a single user, you can use Fortress without a license -- for free.

You can install both server and client on the same machine.

[DeanMc]

Brilliant! great link!

Also I notice in the release notes of vault that it supports 2010 is this the same for fortress, I know VS2010 is still in beta but I want to start using it for lower priority projects to get familiar!

[lbauer]

Yes. The source control is the same in Fortress and Vault. So Fortress supports the same Visual Studio versions as Vault.

[DeanMc]

Thanks Linda!

My VM is almost ready so I get to try it all out yay!

[lbauer]

Let us know if you have further questions.