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Re: Visual SourceSafe for Documentation Source Control
Subject:Re: Visual SourceSafe for Documentation Source Control From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 25 Oct 2005 00:31:53 -0700
Our company had numerous instances of accidental deletions and
overwrites of source files until we began moving the final versions of
projects out of VSS and into a fully secure document control system.
It may not be obvious to the day-to-day user, but VSS does not have
controls to ensure that deleted files are not purged from its database so
that they can always be undeleted, or to ensure that renamed files will
always be linked to their previous named versions to preserve their
histories.
Gene Kim-Eng
I don't agree with your opinion. A VSS database administrator can
grant users the access to projects/files in the database. This is how
it works in my team. There are users who can get the source files but
cannot modify or delete them. The others can modify but cannot delete
files or modify projects. And, of course, there are the projects
owners who have the full privileges.
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