History of version control - 10 astonishments

Re:History of version control - 10 astonishments by sehugg on Saturday December 17, 2011 @01:33PM (#3364764)

Yes, almost any other VCS would fare better. VSS was set up so that clients could write files directly into the repository -- if the client failed for whatever reason, the repository file could get corrupted.

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Re:History of version control - 10 astonishments by flomo on Saturday December 17, 2011 @02:44PM (#3364944)

The bad memories are coming back. IIRC you would mount a network drive containing the VSS files. One company I worked for had a virus which infected the repository and I don't think it was ever completely cleaned out.

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Re:History of version control - 10 astonishments by cpeterso on Saturday December 17, 2011 @02:39PM (#3364932)

And salvaging a corrupted repository was a pain because SourceSafe stored your files in a munged format spread across dozens of files named aaaaaaaa, aaaaaaab, aaaaaaac, and so on. :(

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