New to SSIS & Version Control

[blynch]

Hello,
I have used git a little bit. I am designing some new ETL flows with SSIS and have heard we should implement version control. Does anybody have any tips using version control on SSIS packages? Do you track projects? Packages only?

Thank you.
Brad Lynch

[VHF]

I keep entire projects (including the solution file) under source control using Microsoft Visual SourceSafe. One of these days I'm going to have to switch to Team Foundation Server source control (or another solution) as Microsoft is pulling the plug on SourceSafe.

However, if you wanted you could keep the just the packages (DTSX files) in source control... it would be easy enough to rebuild a project (dtproj) using existing packages if required.

[blynch]

Thank you for your response.