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Below is a full feature listing for the Evolution Source Control System:
- Ease of Use
- Real time updating
- Status Monitor window to show checked out files
- No-click access to version lists and properties
- Visual Studio integration
- Familiar, intuitive interface
- Show uncontrolled file option (diff with local working directory binding)
- Immediate onscreen local status
- Automatic binary handling
- File obliteration to remove all traces from database and server, with built-in safety to prevent destruction of historical data
- Included visual diffing utility
- Image Diffing
- Networking & Remote Access
- Built-in remote access, only Internet connectivity required
- True TCP/IP client/server architecture
- No VPN required
- No drive mapping or mounting required
- Usable over dialup
- Supports usage through firewalls, forwarders and proxies
- Collaboration, Concurrent Development, and Workflow Modeling
- Snapshot based architecture / Production units
- Immutable historical "changesets" (Production versions)
- Production versions are capable of being manipulated as a complete unit for inclusion with other components and projects
- Visual tools to manage project versions
- One-click visual comparison of projects
- Componentization allows multiple versions of same component within a single project
- Advanced branching model
- Visual map of derivation to track codeline relationships
- One-click visual comparison of projects
- Many branch types for different situations
- Clones: Traditional "branch"
- Reflections: Automatically managed unidirectional code propagation
- Shards: Traditional "branch on change"
- Harmonizer for branch reconciliation, rebasing, and merging
- Unlimited branch/workspace depth
- Works in Progress for automatic handling of file-based private workspaces
- Flexible locking
- Exclusive checkouts
- Shared/Concurrent checkouts
- Deferred checkouts - Managed queue that lock assignments and email notifications occur automatically
- Sharing - Zero-cost and reference-linked
- Search tool allows powerful criteria to be constructed, saved, and reused
- Search results exportable to HTML for dsitribution
- Process Automation
- Promotion ladders define your development process
- Event triggers implement your development process
- Open, scriptable architecture
- Supports usage with third-party tools
- Command line utility - full featured interfaceless client for use in event triggers
- Email utility to send notifications Evolution users, for instance, as part of a triggered event action (checkin)
- Promotion ladders can be reused in different departments for different purposes, on different projects. Simply change the implementation of your process (set different event triggers)
- Database & Repository
- Lightweight, Centralized database system for performance and reliability
- Database agnostic - Supports any ODBC datasource
- Database migration tool to move from default database (JET/Microsoft Access) to MSDE, Microsoft SQL Server, and MySQL.
- Unlimited file and repository size
- File system storage of physical file data
- Database storage of metadata
- No limitation on file size (except for operating system limitations)
- File deltas used to conserve server space, with periodic full reference files for optimizating retrieval of historical data
- CRC-based status generation guarantees accuracy (as opposed to date-based)
- Administration
- Full utilities for management of users, security, triggers, and server included.
- Robust, inheritance-based security model
- Import tool for Visual SourceSafe
- Complete documentation
- Enforceable usage of exclusive or shared/concurrent checkouts
- Enforceable usage of encryption, encryption type, and compression
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People are talking...
"ionForge Evolution's user interface is better than anything else I've used. I was using Perforce and having alot of trouble with it because it was not intuitive at all."
Nathaniel L. Walker
University of Louisiana - Lafayette
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