Visual SourceSafe - recursive handling bug from command line

Tuesday, August 1, 2006

In case anyone else bangs their head against this – in SourceSafe, there seems to be a bug in recursive file handling using the command line tools. I tried performing a recursive checkout using a specific filename (AssemblyInfo.cs, in this case), but SourceSafe claimed to not find any matching files. However, if I specify a wildcard character (AssemblyInfo*.cs), it works as expected (although it wouldn’t be exactly the right behavior if I had an AssemblyInfo2.cs file). In other words, this:

ss checkout -R AssemblyInfo.cs

does not work, but this:

ss checkout -R AssemblyInfo*.cs

does.

It appears that the recursive behavior requires a wildcard character to work correctly.

5 Comments

Why are you still using SourceSafe?

Mark - Tuesday, September 5, 2006 2:56:53 AM

Not by my choice, believe me.

kevindente - Tuesday, September 5, 2006 3:07:34 AM

If by coincidence or design you have an AssemblyInfo.cs in the directory you're running SourceSafe from, the default behavior is to try to recurse down *from AssemblyInfo.cs*, not the curdir. Which fails, because unless you work REALLY REALLY HARD a file is not a directory. Adding a wildcard causes it to start from the curdir.

Andrew Cook - Friday, December 21, 2007 9:27:15 PM

я вот что скажу: шикарно!! а82ч

Acinnina - Sunday, February 21, 2010 10:14:26 PM

по моему мнению: отлично! а82ч

Acinnina - Tuesday, February 23, 2010 5:48:21 AM

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