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 SCM Implementation: Visual Source Safe
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 Wim Deblauwe
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 2008-09-02
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SCM Implementation: Visual Source Safe

* General Info

    Link : {{http://msdn.microsoft.com/ssafe/}}

    License : Commercial

* SCM Url

    Because a colon is used for one of the variables (a windows path), a pipe (|) is used as the delimiter.

    The general format for a VSS SCM Url is

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scm:vss|path_to_repository|/module_name
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    The third variable is the path to the Visual Source Safe repository (where srcsafe.ini resides).

    Note that a forward slash is necessary before the module name in the final variable.

* Examples

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scm:vss|C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VSS|/SomeProject
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* Provider Configuration

  The provider configuration is defined in ${user.home}/.scm/vss-settings.xml

** VSS Installation directory

  The provider needs to know the installation path of the ss.exe in order to fulfill VSS commands. The installation path can be set in two ways - either in the vss-settings.xml file:

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<vss-settings>
  <Settings>
    <vssDirectory>ss_exe_directory</vssDirectory>
  <Settings>
</vss-settings>
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  or on the command line:

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mvn -DvssDirectory=ss_exe_directory scm:update
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  In either case, ss_exe_directory should be set to the full path to the directory where ss.exe resides (e.g. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VSS\bin).