Comments on: What can SourceSafe do?

By: sam desilva

sam desilva — Wed, 05 May 2010 13:39:25 +0000

gud article

By: Jalil Khokhar

Jalil Khokhar — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:28:07 +0000

Well explained featured howeveer I am not achieving the comfort level of using the Allow Multiple Checkout. Nevertheless, will give it a try.

By: sunil

sunil — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:52:42 +0000

Hi ….
very good article

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:41:39 +0000

In answer to Neha’s question – with the “multiple checkouts” VSS will allow 2 or more people to simultaneously work on DIFFERENT PARTS of the the same file. When the first (chronologically) checkin is done, the entire file is accepted as is. When the second (an subsequent checkins are done, VSS senses the new changes and merges with the first version – provided there is no conflict. If there are conflicts, VSS provides a mechanism to decide which to keep.

Although an interesting feature, I would recommend against the multiple checkouts in most cases. The the code files are that large and complicated to where more than 1 person would be working on at the same time, perhaps they should be split.

An example of when this might work OK is if there’s a graphics person doing the GUI and developer working on the code in an ASP.NET app. Embedded code vs. codebehind in ASP.NET is a whole different discussion (I perfer the latter in most cases).

By: Neha

Neha — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:33:50 +0000

Can you please tell me wat exactly does “Allow mmultiple checkouts does”? I didnt basically understand how different parts of files can be worked on? does it mean working on multiple files at the same time?

By: Arun

Arun — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:17:33 +0000

Nice introduction