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CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project

CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project

Posted Sep 8, 2010 11:44 UTC (Wed) by wazoox (subscriber, #69624)
In reply to: CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project by cladisch
Parent article: CodePlex.com donates $25,000 to Mercurial project

BTW anything will be a tremendous improvement over SourceSafe.


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VSS is only for peasants

Posted Sep 8, 2010 12:03 UTC (Wed) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Internally Microsoft uses modified version of Perforce called "Source Depot". VSS is just not capable enough. Perhaps they plan to make Hg capable enough and switch to it - simple self-serving reason, not a deep nefarious plan...

VSS is only for peasants

Posted Sep 8, 2010 12:13 UTC (Wed) by ceplm (subscriber, #41334) [Link]

VSS is only for peasants

Posted Sep 8, 2010 17:09 UTC (Wed) by Doogie (guest, #59626) [Link]

VSS is unsuitable for any purpose, AFAIAC.

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