How To Increase Performance in SourceSafe
Article ID: 123473
Article Last Modified on 2/24/2005
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 4.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q123473
SUMMARY
Use the following steps to improve Visual SourceSafe's (VSS) speed (performance):
- Make the correct platform version of the VSS executable local,
as opposed to located on the network. Set the environment variable
SSDIR to the network location of the SourceSafe database.
- Change the Comparison methods from the default of "Full" to "Checksum"
by:
- Choosing Command Settings... from the Setup menu and selecting the pull down labeled "Compare files by."
- Adding Compare = Checksum to the top section of the SS.ini file.
- Set the TEMP_PATH variable to a local directory.
MORE INFORMATION
This could be caused by having too many "Dir=" or "Shadow=" entries in one of the INI files. Try to create a directory structure on disk, which matches the VSS project tree. Then clean up the extra Dir= and Shadow= entries in the .ini files. That way you only need an entry in your INI file for each "tip" project.
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