Ah, VSS bashing! Can't resist to join...
VSS, by design, depends heavily on well-synchronized system clocks of all
client computers performing checkins. In the worst case, your VSS database
is trashed completely simply because one computer checks in a change while
his system clock is on a time *before the VSS project was created*. The main
lesson to learn from this is: You can simply not trust the VSS history
because all timestamps reflected in the history stem from the system clock
that the client computer had when the checkin was executed.
The MSDN says to this: "Make sure that you synchronize the dates and system
clocks for all Visual SourceSafe client computers".
Some development teams (such as ours here) frequently need to fiddle with
the system clocks of their computers for example to test software behavior
that depends on timestamps etc. So if the developer forgets to re-adjust the
system clock before checking in something, the VSS history might look funny
thereafter.
Robert
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremy Pereira [mailto:jeremyp@jeremyp.net]
> Sent: Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 12:12
> To: Eric
> Cc: users@subversion.tigris.org
> Subject: Re: Subversion vs CVS for document files
>
>
>
> On 15 Nov 2006, at 17:06, Eric wrote:
>
> >
> > The one person who is most adamantly opposed to SVN and is so
> > adamantly pushing VSS is a partner in the business and so there is
> > no one above him who can do any of that.
>
> Google search: visual source safe corruption
>
> http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=visual+source+safe
> +corruption&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
>
> 1.5 million results, many of which lead to articles that support the
> assertion that it should never be used by anyone ever.
>
> Alternatively, let him bring in VSS and let it speak for itself.
> From reading some of those 1.5 million articles it seems that
> unplugging your computer's network cable while in the middle of
> committing changes should be enough to corrupt your VSS repository.
> It would be unethical to do that to deliberately discredit the
> product, of course :-)
>
> >
> > He is a "my way or the highway" type whose mind typically cannot be
> > changed.
> >
> > He brings a LOT to the table and is extremely valuable, I'd say
> > crucial, to the success of this enterprise in every other way
> > except this, and that makes it difficult-to-impossible to convince
> > the other partners to overrule him on issues like this where it is
> > perceived that adequate alternatives (e.g. VSS, which they consider
> > adequate) exist.
> >
> > I am also a partner but I am only one vote.
> >
> > See what I'm up against? :-(
> >
> >
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