Thread: Cloud Computing: A Reasonable Solution For The Build Season?
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Re: Cloud Computing: A Reasonable Solution For The Build Season?
In 2007 another programmer and I set up an SVN server on his personal web server, and saved the code that way. Unfortunately, some of the lesser experienced programmers dumped their code in mid-season. One second everything was compiling fine, the next we had 100ish errors, 500 warnings, and a headache. It took us 20 minutes to realize what had happened, after that they had their own "special" repository set up.

Version control is great for teams of people, just make sure everyone knows what they're doing. Giving read access to files is great, allowing people to modify and write files haphazardly is not.

Last thing - keep in mind that keeping version control takes discipline - if you don't religiously update and save the latest version of code, you might as well not take the time to set it up.
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