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I prefer to believe they just merged the two branches in SourceSafe.

• plorkyeran 11mo ago
  Microsoft never used SourceSafe for anything important internally.
  • onlogn 11mo ago
    Hmm. Not sure I agree. The initial CLR for .net was in vss. Maybe it wasn’t important, but bonus points if you know why.
    • shawnb576 11mo ago
      No definitely not true. It was in Source Depot if not SLM.
  • wongogue 11mo ago
    This I can believe.
• Traubenfuchs 11mo ago
  Personally, I enjoyed MS source safe and exclusive file locking.
  • sksrbWgbfK 11mo ago
    I loved SourceSafe for the disappearing files, and the usual "John locked the file and he went on holidays."
    • Traubenfuchs 11mo ago
      Well that was just bad manners and you could force unlock.
  • ch_123 11mo ago
    Perforce also did exclusive file locking (and I believe Microsoft ended up using a customized Perforce internally at some point).
    • RyJones 11mo ago
      sd was a light customization of p4 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180122-00/?p=97855 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180122-00/?p=97...
• teytra 11mo ago
  Did SourceSafe even have a proper merge?