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Help on Microsoft Visual SourceSafe could be obtained from
MS VSS home web site. The VSS Command line answers Web Site: MS VSS Command Line. Public Users News Groups for VSS locations: Visual Studio SourceSafe, Visual Studio .NET VSS. Examples on VSS automation located at MS VSS Samples web site. Access Visual SourceSafe over the Internet 3rd party tool SourceOffSite from Sourcegear. Error Messages, Examples, Causes and Resolutions from Analyze too of Visual SourceSafe located here. |
| VSS Command Line Commands | ||
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| Command | Description | Example |
| Get | To get latest version | ss Get myfile.cpp |
| Diff | Compares the VSS file myfile.cpp to the local file myfile.cpp | ss Diff myfile.cpp |
| Compares the version 3 VSS file myfile.cpp to the local copy of myfile.cpp | ss Diff myfile.cpp -V3 | |
| Compares versions 3 and 6 of the VSS file myfile.cpp | ss Diff myfile.cpp -V6~3 | |
| Compares file myfile.cpp in the VSS database against the file yourfile.cpp on your local computer | ss Diff $/myfile.cpp C:\yourfile.cpp | |
| Pin | Pins the file myfile.cpp in $/my/code to version 3 | ss Pin $/my/code/myfile.cpp -V3 |
| Unpin | Cancels the pinned status of myfile.cpp and myfile.h | ss Unpin myfile.cpp myfile.h |
| Dir | Shows a directory of the project $/myproject | ss Dir $/myproject |
| Cp | Makes $/myproject the current project | ss Cp $/myproject |
| Help | Shows help on the Share command | ss Help Share |
| Label | Assigns a label to the current version of the project $/myproject | ss Label $/myproject |
| history | Displays the last three items in the history list for the current project, or for file myfile.cpp, respectively | ss history . -#3 |
| ss history myfile.cpp -#3 | ||
| Purge | Purges (Permanently removes) the deleted file myfile.cpp | ss Purge myfile.cpp |
| Pin | Makes version 5 of myfile.cpp a member of the current project (note the command verb, Pin) | ss Pin myfile.cpp -V5 |
| Share | Creates a branch from the project $/myproject | ss Share $/myproject -R -E |
| Locate | Looks for the string "myword" in all .cpp files | ss Locate myfile.cpp |
| Paths | Shows all current and broken shared file links to the file myfile.cpp | ss Paths myfile.cpp |
| View | Shows the contents of the VSS file myfile.cpp | ss View myfile.cpp |
| FindinFiles | Looks for the string "myword" in all .cpp files | ss FindinFiles myword *.cpp |
| Properties | Shows property information on the file myfile.cpp, and changes its file type to binary | ss Properties -B myfile.cpp |
| Status | Shows every file in the system that is checked out by the current user | ss Status $/ -R -U |
| Status | Shows every file in the system that is checked out by the current user | ss Status $/ -R -U |
| Deploy | Deploys a Web project ($/myproject) to the deployment location specified by the Deploy_Path initialization variable | ss Deploy $/myproject |
| Filetype | Tells whether myfile.cpp is text or binary | ss Filetype myfile.cpp |
| Changes myfile.cpp to a binary file | ss Filetype myfile.cpp -B | |
| Rollback | Rolls back myfile.cpp to version 4 | ss Rollback myfile.cpp -V4 |
| Add | Adds file myfile.cpp to the current project | ss Add C:\myfile.cpp |
| Links | Shows all projects that are sharing the file myfile.cpp | ss Links myfile.cpp |
| Checkin | Checks in your changes to the file myfile.cpp | ss Checkin myfile.cpp |
| Checkout | Checks out file myfile.cpp from project $/myproject | ss Checkout $/myproject/myfile.cpp |
| Delete | Deletes the file myfile.cpp from the project $/myproject | ss Delete $/myproject/myfile.cpp |
| Recover | Undeletes the removed file myfile.cpp | ss Recover myfile.cpp |
| Rename | Changes the VSS file named myfile.cpp to yourfile.cpp | ss Rename myfile.cpp yourfile.cpp |
| Create | Creates subproject myproject under the root project $/ | ss Create $/myproject |
| Merge | Merges the file myfile.cpp in $/myproject into myfile.cpp in the current project | ss Merge $/myproject/myfile.cpp |
| Branch | Branches myfile.cpp in the current project away from its counterpart in other projects | ss Branch myfile.cpp |
| Move | Moves the project $/myproject from $/yourproject to $/ourproject, creating $/ourproject/myproject | ss Move $/yourproject/myproject $/ourproject |
| physical | Creates a file named Physical.txt that indicates all teh files that have not been deleted and are not corrupted in the VSS database | ss physical $/ -r -o physical.txt |
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