Surround SCM 4.1.3 review
DownloadSurround SCM is a full-featured version manager that controls who changes your files and remembers what they changed and when.
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Surround SCM is a full-featured version manager that controls who changes your files and remembers what they changed and when.
Advanced branching and private branches faciliate concurrent development of products and versions.
It provides a central repository to manage changes to your source files and facilitate team collaboration.
Here are some key features of "Surround SCM":
Role-based Security Options
Apply role-based security at the server, repository, or branch level.
Keep source code secure with strict password rules and 512-bit encrypted communications. Encrypt data sent between the client and the server.
Record unusual activity as well as critical and noncritical system issues with server logging.
Scalable and Flexible Architecture
Work from anywhere with fast, secure remote access.
Scale Surround SCM to support teams of all sizes.
Run Surround SCM's clients and servers on Windows, Solaris, Linux, and Mac OS X. Powerful command line and GUI interfaces are available for all operating systems.
Full Unicode support allows file names, branch and repository names, comments, and file contents to be written in any language.
Extend Surround SCM's functionality with administrator- definable triggers.
Extensible Solution
Work with source files from Web browsers and WebDAV-enabled applications including Windows Explorer, Mac OS X Finder, Linux Davfs, and Photoshop 7.0.
Integrate with Ant, C++ Builder, CodeWarrior, CodeWright, CruiseControl, Delphi, Dreamweaver MX, Eclipse, IDEA, JBuilder, NAnt, Visual Basic, Visual Build Professional, Visual C++, Visual Studio .NET, and WebSphere.
Automate Surround SCM's functionality with event-driven triggers.
Advanced Branching Capabilities
Enable parallel development with advanced branching.
Manage complex branching schemes with various branch attributes including frozen, hidden, cache on demand, and inactive.
Isolate development changes from the production environment.
Private branches protect each team member's code base from changes made by other team members.
View file history of changes promoted from other branches.
Changelists and Atomic Transactions
Group change actions together and view historic changelists to identify related changes.
Ensure user actions either succeed or fail as a unit with atomic transactions.
Save and print changelist information.
LDAP and Active Directory Support
Easily add new users to the Seapine License Server.
Administrators can validate logins with LDAP or Active Directory and retrieve user information from LDAP servers.
Reporting and Notifications
Analyze file information and actions with history, trend, labeled, and checked out file reports.
Inform team members of source file changes with automatic email notifications.
Reliable Data Storage
Check for and repair corrupt or truncated database files with Surround SCM's analyze utility.
Guiffy Compare/Merge Utility
Surround SCM includes Guiffy, the leading crossplatform compare/merge utility.
Guiffy supports more than 150 file formats and can compare/merge virtually any type of source file.
Guiffy provides sophisticated folder and file tree compare and synchronization capabilities.
Guiffy's 3-way smart merge, SureMerge, features intelligent functionality and ease-of-use.
Database Conversion
Convert VSS, CVS, and StarTeam archives to Surround SCM and preserve file history.
Easy-to-Use Interface
Search by filename, events, check out user, status, and label text in the Source Tree view.
Use the file details pane to work with files and access file commands. View the selected file's properties, history, check out status, and sharing information.
View the file activity log including information about files you get, check out. All file information is logged.
Use shadow folders to provide read-only access to non-Surround users or to provide a central location to build releases from.
Digital Asset Management
Manage image files with Surround SCM's thumbnail image support.
Use Surround SCM's image file diff utility to view two versions of a graphic file simultaneously to quickly identify changes.
Integrate with Dreamweaver MX and Photoshop 7.0.
What's New:
The Surround SCM GUI Client can automatically find Surround SCM Servers running on the subnet.
View differences between two branches.
Configure Surround SCM to launch a diff utility based on file extension.
Cloak repositories to skip them when performing recursive get, check in, check out, or undo check out actions.
Merge changes between unrelated files.
Integration with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project).
Integration with CruiseControl.NET.
Integration with Borland Delphi 2005.
Integration with Dreamweaver MX, MX 2004, and 8 on Mac OS X.
Improved Eclipse integration including package/folder
level functionality, enhanced error logging, icon decorations, and a digitally signed plugin.
Improved Dreamweaver integration including defect linking.
Recursively restore removed repositories.
Use the File Contents Changed filter in the History dialog box and History pane to display the file versions that include content changes. (GUI)
The History dialog box and History pane retain expanded/collapsed and selected items when the filter changes. (GUI)
Set default user options for adding files. (GUI)
The Surround SCM Server sends status messages during initialization, which allows clients to connect to the server while large mainline branches are loading.
When voiding a check out, view all users who currently have the file checked out. (GUI)
Improved performance when viewing properties for a repository with many removed files. (GUI)
Permanently destroyed files were not removed from the corresponding shadow folder.
Previewing a promoted share displayed the same files twice. (GUI)
Adding files from the CLI Client set the file status to Unknown. (CLI)
Rebasing a single file or repository that was renamed in the parent branch caused a Record Not Found error.
Columns in the Void Check Out dialog box did not sort correctly. (GUI)
When checking in files, skipping the merge for a file with an Old, Modified status changed the status to Old.
The File Differences report did not display the correct status of Old, Modifed files. (GUI)
The local directory was incorrect when performing a diff from the Check In dialog box on Windows. (GUI)
Renaming a branch caused existing changelists for the branch to become invalid.
The History report with differences did not display HTML tags correctly. (GUI)
A floating license was used when a login failed because the user did not have access to log in using the client. Surround SCM 4.1.0 also includes other minor bug fixes. Surround SCM 4.1.0 includes a newer version of the Seapine License Server (version 3.2.0).
What's New:
Enhancements
Improved cache locking on the Surround SCM Linux Server to reduce timeout failures under heavy load conditions.
Bug Fixes
Files were not retrieved if a directory other than the working directory was selected when performing a get based on timestamp. (GUI)
If the Require Attach to Defect option was selected for a repository, files were not attached to defects or checked in. (GUI)
The Attach to Defect option did not work when clicking Save, Check In, and Close in the internal editor. (GUI)
Label comments were not included on repositories after converting from Visual SourceSafe.
Double clicking to edit an item in the Diff/Merge category in the User Options dialog box did not work. (GUI)
Double clicking to edit an item in the View/Edit File category in the User Options dialog box did not work. (GUI)
The syntax for recursively getting a specific repository was restored. (CLI)
In Visual Studio 2005, the TestTrack Pro toolbar caused Surround SCM windows to lose focus.
CVS version 1.0 files were not imported to Surround SCM during conversion.
If an error occurred when a branch was loading, the mainline branch repositories were not displayed. (GUI)
Surround SCM 4.1.3 includes a newer version of the Seapine License Server (version 3.3.3).
Requirements:
Surround SCM 4.0.1 server.
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