A few months ago, I did a quick review of Sourcegear Vault.
Since then, we’ve upgraded from version 1.0.3 to 1.2.1. The client tools are marginally better, although the GUI performance has greatly improved. You still can’t run DIFF on arbitrary files.
The thing that really blows is that the server database schema conversion from the old version to the new version screwed up our data. The actual source code came over intact, but all of the file sharing was lost. I called them up, and they gave me a patch that was supposed to restore all of the shared links. It did about 20% of them. We have hundreds and hundreds of linked files, which I had to manually re-share by hand (by manually I mean I wrote scripts). I wasn’t too happy with that, it took me a lot of time to get it done, time better spent doing other things.
In general, I think most of our developers don’t like it, because on slower computers it is a complete pig (by slow I mean a dual 800 with 256 megs of ram)
Word to the wise: If you get Vault, be REALLY careful when you upgrade versions. Do lots of backups, and lots of finger crossing. And if you’re not working on a ridiculously big system like we are, stay on sourcesafe, and save yourself the headache.
