Old versions???

[99mel]

Helloooo,

Right, I have a vb project which I am keep making changes (updates) to. How do i succesfully keep a history of the old versions in SourceSafe? Should I check out the project, make changes to it then check it in? I also want to give a comment for each version about the changes.

Will by doing this give a version (comments) history, doesn't seem to.

Thanks for any info!

 

[steveaubrey]

Hi, Mel.

You'll definitely want to do check-ins of your code into SourceSafe, and you will probably want to label the checked-in code (as well as any comments you want to add).

The labels will let you mark logical breaking points in your project (different releases, different functionality, whatever you choose), and will let you pull all your code as of a logical point as opposed to a purely time-based point.

Web sites to look at are

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvss/html/vssbest.asp,

http://www.michaelis.net/SourceSafe/Faq.htm,

and

http://www.michaelbolton.net/

Unfortunately,

http://www1.shore.net/~ckollars/vss.html

seems to be unavailable.

Hope this has helped,
Steve