12 engineers on Hacker News describe using Visual SourceSafe first-hand: 0 endorse it, 8 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“made us lock a file to make changes, which was a PITA. I think we made a lot of the decisions on where to break out code”
regret · production · kevin42 · 2024-04-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Worst. VCS. Ever! Can't believe anyone ever loved VSS - it was constantly corrupting the repository”
regret · production · ianmcgowan · 2023-01-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“besides visual source safe which I try to forget”
regret · personal · relics443 · 2016-12-27 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Turns out VSS was capable of corrupting itself beyond repair with no help from anyone!”
regret · production · roller · 2014-05-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“they were using VSS and it was so much of a diasaster that I took it upon myself to prepare a sizable document”
regret · production · anton_gogolev · 2014-05-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“It was stored in Visual Source Safe 6, and their development shop was totally crippled by what was essentially "God objects" and file locking.”
regret · production · evilduck · 2013-10-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We just migrated our source control system from Visual SourceSafe to - wait for it - SVN.”
regret · production · scrumper · 2012-12-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“My last employer was still on sourcesafe (shudder!) when I left last year”
regret · production · dbattaglia · 2011-10-30 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I remember when we migrated from Visual Source Safe to TFS at my place of work.”
neutral · production · TowerTall · 2025-06-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“or the lovely SourceSafe before that.) Most people did not wrap their features in toggles.”
neutral · production · dahart · 2017-10-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We were moving the developers off VisualSourceSafe, and the DevOps expert (hired at the same time as me) was a Git pro, so we tried Git.”
neutral · production · stephengillie · 2017-07-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?“at my first job, we used SourceSafe, and it would lock the files when you check them out”
neutral · production · nostrademons · 2011-02-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?