- Visual SourceSafe
in short VSS, a source control application from Microsoft.
- Physical file
- VSS is a simple custom database, where the history of each item is stored in a concrete file, called physical file. See also the ss physical command.
- VSS archive
- A VSS database is also called an archive. The equivalent term for Subversion is the repository.
- VSS commands
- the command line commands you can use to modify your VSS archive, e.g add, checkin, share, branch, ...
- VSS Item
- VSS can manage projects (alias directories) and files. The term item is the umbralla term.
- VSS Action
- each command is translated into a specific action in the history of the apropriate item.
- VSS Version
- revision
- In Subversion, this is the new state of the filesystem tree just after a commit.
- repository
- In Subversion, this refers to the storage of information in files and directories (the filesystem tree), and all changes to that information tracked over time.
- SSPhys.exe
- A command line utility that is capable to read and decode the VSS physical files. See also SsPhys.
- commit
- In Subversion, when changes in your working copy are sent to the repository.
- working copy
- In Subversion, a local copy of a revision of a repository. A user may make changes to this local copy and publish (commit) these changes.
