Issues with 'current' (2013) TFVC, as far as I'm concerned:
- Slow as molasses for every operation
- No offline commits. You do have 'client workspaces' now, which just basically means that the broken and insane 'The server remembers your last known state' goes away and you have something similar to svn: A local 'baseline'
- Branches are 'copies'
- Merges are a PITA
- Conflicts are a PITA
- Depending on what you're doing you probably _WILL_ need to get a specific version (and yeah, please overwrite) because get latest is broken/doesn't work (probably not relevant for client/offline workspaces anymore)
- (The UI is terrible. Far worse than the git CLI could ever be, in my world)
So, my preferences:
- Git
- Any other DVCS
- SVN
- CVS
- TFVC, SourceSafe etc., because they're the same thing in terms of usability for me (now, safety/stability is something else. TFVC would probably win when we check out the camera at the finish line).
Basically we are in a situation where we want to use festure branches or shelve sets for easier review and CI, but our repo is too big for dvcs. Feature branching is out of the question in svn of course. What I'd want is a good centralized git where you can have a 20GB bare repo but check out 2GB recent history from some branches and work with that.
- Slow as molasses for every operation
- No offline commits. You do have 'client workspaces' now, which just basically means that the broken and insane 'The server remembers your last known state' goes away and you have something similar to svn: A local 'baseline'
- Branches are 'copies'
- Merges are a PITA
- Conflicts are a PITA
- Depending on what you're doing you probably _WILL_ need to get a specific version (and yeah, please overwrite) because get latest is broken/doesn't work (probably not relevant for client/offline workspaces anymore)
- (The UI is terrible. Far worse than the git CLI could ever be, in my world)
So, my preferences:
- Git
- Any other DVCS
- SVN
- CVS
- TFVC, SourceSafe etc., because they're the same thing in terms of usability for me (now, safety/stability is something else. TFVC would probably win when we check out the camera at the finish line).
It is really, really limited and bad.