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by speed_spread 206 days ago
I prefer to believe they just merged the two branches in SourceSafe.
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plorkyeran 206 days ago
Microsoft never used SourceSafe for anything important internally.
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onlogn 206 days 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.
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shawnb576 206 days ago
No definitely not true. It was in Source Depot if not SLM.
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wongogue 206 days ago
This I can believe.
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Traubenfuchs 206 days ago
Personally, I enjoyed MS source safe and exclusive file locking.
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sksrbWgbfK 206 days ago
I loved SourceSafe for the disappearing files, and the usual "John locked the file and he went on holidays."
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Traubenfuchs 206 days ago
Well that was just bad manners and you could force unlock.
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ch_123 206 days ago
Perforce also did exclusive file locking (and I believe Microsoft ended up using a customized Perforce internally at some point).
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RyJones 206 days ago
sd was a light customization of p4

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180122-00/?p=97...

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teytra 206 days ago
Did SourceSafe even have a proper merge?
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