Little tip: (Few Tips Actually) * Note Exactly How Many 5MB Dll's do you have lying around * Note if you read slowly you will notice I actually talk about 5 Months of 20 days a Month. * Note I never Suggested Keeping a History of all the Builds in SourceSafe, Only the Latest, Anyone with some knowledge could tell you that it's trivial to turn of the history on a SourceSafe folder meaning you will only ever have 1 Build in SourceSafe.
Nowhere did I suggest storing multi Gigabytes of data in SourceSafe. Last Tip: * Note: Just because you do not understand something does not mean you should condemn it; it is much more productive to attempt to understand something than to simply condemn it based on you own lack of understanding -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Tomiczek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 August 2004 11:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Large solutions and references > -----Original Message----- > From: Unmoderated discussion of advanced .NET topics. > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Stevens > Sent: Mittwoch, 11. August 2004 10:31 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Large solutions and references > > so based on a working month approx of approx 20 days you will > after 5 months have accumulates a terrible 500MB, on say a > 160GB (a pretty average size drive these days) drive, I fail > to see the big issue, it's not as-if you would get the latest > version of every build ever done when you simply want to > reference the latest build in your solution Ah, Right. Little tip: * Note that you talk of ONE dll - you will have more soonish. * Note that you talk of 20 days only. Projects last longer. * Note that everyone with some knowledge will tell you that 2Gb is about the largest you can get with a VSS database unless you want to risk things. It is basically that - VSS is not done to handle archives of anything more than a trivial size. Does not work. You will have to wait for another product, like switching to Sourcegear's Vault (using SQL Server as storage - they can deal with 100 Tb if necessary). VSS just is not made for multi gigabyte archives. And this is a well documented and well known fact, which you can easily verify. Thomas TomiczekTHONA Software & Consulting Ltd. (Microsoft MVP C#/.NET) (CTO PowerNodes Ltd.) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Frans Bouma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 11 August 2004 10:15 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [ADVANCED-DOTNET] Large solutions and references > > > Also a nice way to share the base build if you are using > SourceSafe is > > to check the built dll's into SourceSafe, and use shadow folders by > > referencing the files in the shadow folder, it's very easy > to update > > your local build to the newest version of the built files by simply > > getting the latest version of the build folder from SourceSafe > > But if the destination dll is huge (and we're talking > a huge solution here, so chances are, it is), say 5MB or > more, every build will thus use 5MB of space (maybe more) in > sourcesafe, as sourcesafe stores a bin file completely. 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