>Hello, I want to integrate my VFP9 apps with some version control software. I know there are many of them, but I don't know which are the best that work with VFP9.
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>Currently, we are a team of 2 people developing one new app, so, I also want to know if is necessary to have a repository on the cloud, I mean, services like Github or Sourceforge.
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>Is it necesary to convert binary files (like .scx, .vcx) in to text format? If so, what is the best tool for that tasks?
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>I guess I should have done this many years before, but, they say "It's never too late".
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>TIA
Hi Luis,

We have used old-school Sourcegear Vault with VFP for I think 11 years and counting, with no issues. Vault integrates directly with VFP as a source control provider. No conversion of files is required. It does require an instance of MSSQL (but you can get the dev version of MSSQL and use if for nothing so long as you only store program code on it, as the license MSSQL dev license permits use in development environments). It runs from the "cloud" but that could be a server that you put up, or a VPS instance you rent (2 CPU's is enough).

We use Github (accessed through Gitkraken) for Lianja applications. And there are routines that convert VFP "object" files to text file (and are 2-way), so that's also an option. In our case, there's no reason to change the Vault-based source control for VFP programs. In the case of Lianja, everything is already is readable files (even the project file is an XML file). Github/Gitraken certainly makes have dev and prod versioning easy (something like that can be done in Vault, but it's convoluted).

Hank