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I won't name the offender, but a well-known company I worked for did something funnier: zipping entire directory and checking the zip files in Visual Source Saf
by narag 7y ago
I won't name the offender, but a well-known company I worked for did something funnier: zipping entire directory and checking the zip files in Visual Source Safe.
- masklinn 7y agoGiven how broken VSS is, that might have been safer than using VSS as if it worked properly.
- narag 7y agoLOL, I used it in 1996-97 and it worked OK for a modest setup with only six users and blocking at file level. Later heard some horror stories from people working at big shops, but no worse than svn stories, anyway I haven't seen any of those.
- mikestew 7y agoAbout your time of using VSS, I was working at Microsoft in developer support (working on COM data access, and not VSS, thank $DEITY). It was fine for small internal stuff we’d do, the stories I heard from industrial-strength use did not instill confidence for anything more than a half-dozen devs. OTOH, we shipped small components for a larger product using VSS, and I don’t recal any issues. Hated the workflow and interface, but it worked