Vault is a commercial, proprietary
version control system
In software engineering, version control (also known as revision control, source control, or source code management) is a class of systems responsible for managing changes to computer programs, documents, large web sites, or other collections o ...
by SourceGear LLC which markets its product as a replacement for
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation, multinational technology company, technology corporation producing Software, computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at th ...
's
Visual Source Safe.
Vault uses
Microsoft SQL Server
Microsoft SQL Server is a relational database management system developed by Microsoft. As a database server, it is a software product with the primary function of storing and retrieving data as requested by other software applications—which ...
as a back end database and provides atomic commits to the version control system.
The tool is built on top of
Microsoft .NET
The Microsoft .NET strategy is a marketing plan that Microsoft followed in the early 2000s. Steve Ballmer described it as the company's "most ambitious undertaking since Internet Strategy Day in 1995". In support of this strategy, between 2000 and ...
.
Fortress, originally an
application lifecycle management
Application lifecycle management (ALM) is the product lifecycle management ( governance, development, and maintenance) of computer programs. It encompasses requirements management, software architecture, computer programming, software tes ...
(ALM) product marketed separately for use with Vault, was later merged into Vault releases.
Third party products have been designed to be integrated with Vault such as
OnTime
GitKraken (formerly Axosoft) is a software company based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Founded in 2000, the company was purchased in 2020 by Resurgens Technology Partners, and changed its name from Axosoft to GitKraken in 2021.
GitKraken
The compa ...
,
FogBugz
FogBugz is an integrated web-based project management system featuring bug and issue tracking, discussion forums, wikis, customer relationship management, and evidence-based scheduling originally developed by Fog Creek Software
Glitch (p ...
,
TeamCity, and
SmartBear CodeCollaborator.
See also
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Revision control
In software engineering, version control (also known as revision control, source control, or source code management) is a class of systems responsible for managing changes to computer programs, documents, large web sites, or other collections o ...
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List of revision control software
This is a list of notable software for version control.
Local data model
In the local-only approach, all developers must use the same file system.
Open source
* Revision Control System (RCS) – stores the latest version and backward del ...
References
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External links
Vault, SourceGearVault Development BlogAsp alliance review
Proprietary version control systems
C Sharp software
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