Asp4Hs: Source and Version Control

A number of people have asked about using HomeSite with common source and version control software applications like Microsoft's Visual SourceSafe or RCS or CVS. Many people seem not to know that HomeSite has worked with VSS and other packages that support SCCI (Source Code Control Interface) since version 4.0.

From the help... "HomeSite uses the source-code control (SCC) interface to connect with a wide range of standard source control products including Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, Intersolv PVCS, and StarBase Versions. HomeSite can work with both client-based and server-based systems."

There are also ways to use HomeSite/Studio with CVS and RCS, primarily using toolbar buttons. More info below.

Feel free to send me info if you have more on something I have listed or something I'm missing.

Here are a few links that may help in this area.

HomeSite/Studio Add-on's Related to Source Control

CS RCS/CVS ToolBar
CVS Header Script inserts a 'standard' CVS file header into the top of current file. (also listed here)

HomeSite and Source Control Links

Macromedia Help
- The help integrated into HomeSite is the first place you should go to learn how get HomeSite and your source control working together. Look under: Using Homesite | Implementing Project Source Control.
- HomeSite Developer Center
- Macromedia Developer's Exchange (DevEx)
- Support Forums
Macromedia Knowledge Base Articles
- Project Management in HomeSite
- Setting up a Project in Source Control with HomeSite or Studio 4.5
- Sharing HomeSite or Studio 4.5 projects that are integrated with Microsoft Visual SourceSafe.
- Integrating Multiple Users with Microsoft Visual SourceSafe via HomeSite or Studio 4.5.1
- Using MS Visual Source Safe with HomeSite/Studio
  This older article addresses some VSS/HS setup problems you may come across.
Visual Source Safe (VSS) Related
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe
- SourceOffSite
  Provides fast and secure read/write access to a centralized VSS/SourceSafe database via any TCP/IP connection. Recommended by John Troy, who uses it for their VSS over the internet... "I work out of a remote office in Central MA, while the main server is in Portsmouth NH. I have DSL, but this is even decent when using Dial-Up!"
- Macromedia: Sharing HomeSite or Studio 4.5 projects that are integrated with Microsoft Visual SourceSafe.
- Macromedia: Integrating Multiple Users with Microsoft Visual SourceSafe via HomeSite or Studio 4.5.1
- Macromedia: Using MS Visual Source Safe with HomeSite/Studio
  This older article addresses some VSS/HS setup problems you may come across.
CVS (Concurrent Versions System) Related
- CVS support in CF Studio and HomeSite+ without any setup
- CVS (Concurrent Versions System) - the open standard for version control (probably the main home-site for CVS)
- Jalindi Igloo: CVS-SCC plug-in
  Jalindi Igloo is a program that allows you to connect Microsoft Visual Studio and other IDEs directly to a CVS repository. The program is completely free. This will allow you to use CVS via the SCCI in HomeSite. (see also this thread)
- PushOK CVS-SCC plug-in
  Similar to Jalindi Igloo, this will allow you to use CVS via the SCCI in HomeSite. free.
- TortiseCVS Interface:
  According to a user in this thread TortiseCVS works to integrate a CVS client in Windows Explorer, and then into HomeSite. It's freely available under the GPL.
- DevGuy's CVS Information
- WinCVS, a C++ front end for CVS distributed under GPL. (also MacCVS)
- Concurrent Versions System (CVS)(open source)
- WebMonkey: A Look at CVS
- CVS and the Microsoft Source Code Control Interface
  This seems to be an effort to make CVS work with SCCI-supporting windows development tools by implementing an SCC API interface in CVS.
RCS Related
- Marjolein's Help for HomeSite Users
  Marjolein Katsma has some info on her site about version control including help for interfacing HomeSite to various RCS packages, even some free ones. She also shows how to use non-SCCI packages via toolbars and command-line interfaces.
- ComponentSoftware RCS for Win95/NT (CS-RCS)
- Oliver Giesen notes that ComponentSoftware's CS-RCS v2.5.131 now implements the MS SCC API.
Other Source and Version Control Packages
- Seapine Software KB: Integrating Surround SCM with Macromedia Homesite
  Surround is a cross-platform SourceSafe alternative
- CFMXPLUS Blog: Nice, simple, low-cost Version Control for Window (11/18/02)
  Discussion of how to use QumaSoft's QVCS for source control with HomeSite/Studio.
- StarBase (StarTeam)
- Mortice Kern Systems Inc. (MKS)
- Merant PVCS Dimensions

Using HomeSite with Clearcase

In the thread: Any information on using ClearCase for source control?
Skip Wilson, on Wednesday, February 06, 2002 11:40 AM wrote:

We got this working yesterday and since Macromedia/Allaire doesn't like to support it's products, I thought I would try to help. To get this working using Clearcase 4.0 and Homesite 5.0 on NT4, we had to do the following:

First make sure Clearcase is installed and working properly. When Windows loads open the "ClearCase Home Base", go to the "Views" tab, click "Start View", and choose the view you want to access. This will create a mapped drive letter (e.g. X:\) through which you can use to access files in that specific view.
On the HomeSite "Projects" tab, click the new "Create Project button". Give it a name and select a location for the "Project File". I believe this location needs to be set to the root folder of the view you want to work with. This *should* give you a list of all the folders and files under that view, but you won't be able to execute Clearcase commands yet.
Right-click on the name of the Project, choose "source control" -> "Choose Source Control Provider", and then make sure Clearcase is selected. Then right-click on the Project name again, go to "source countrol" -> "map project to source control", and select the same root folder within the Clearcase mapped drive where you stored your "project file".

Once you do all three of those things, you should be able to execute Clearcase commands by right-click on files in the project window, or by using source control toolbar.