Re: microsoft visual source safe

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 13:57:04 +0800 Richmond Pabilona <rpabilonia(a)cyberjresources.com&gt; wrote: OT, and not really an answer to your question, but this is important (a former employer of mine learned the hard way): some versions of VSS (maybe all?) don't check disk space before committing, and don't behave gracefully when it runs out. the VSS archives, which are a proprietary binary format, get corrupted and you end up having to reconstruct your source code from the fragments scattered about the developers systems or from backup tapes. i won't tell you not to use it, but you want competent adminstrators watching the VSS box if you are using it. my former employer didn't, and as such had no current backups. the consequences were quite painful, to say the least. richard -- Richard Welty rwelty(a)averillpark.net Averill Park Networking 518-573-7592 Java, PHP, PostgreSQL, Unix, Linux, IP Network Engineering, Security