Bert's correct, we're currently using Visual SourceSafe (VSS) but should be
migrating to Subversion. (I've not heard of Volume Snapshot Service, until
now. I didn't think SourceSafe and SVN were 'totally different product
types', despite their many differences!)
2008/12/19 Harvey, Edward <Edward.Harvey_at_patni.com>
> > In the context of Subversion VSS almost always stands for Visual
> > Source Safe; an old version management system from Microsoft, which
> > even Microsoft doesn't suggest to new users. I experienced that you
> > can lose information with sourcesafe, but it certainly wasn't designed
> > to do that. (It just happens to do that for a lot of users with big
> > repositories)
> >
> > The Volume Snapshot Service just shares the same three letter acronym.
>
> Ooohhh... I never heard of visual source safe. I assumed he was talking
> about volume shadow service. (Another Microsoft product.)
>
> Thank you for the clarification. I agree there's no advantage for visual
> source safe over svn.
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