On Tue, 7 Feb 2017 13:15:12 +1300, Peter Reutemann wrote:
I remember using SourceSafe way back. It may not have been great, but it was a big improvement over "not having any" version control. :-)
I have heard horror stories about SourceSafe, namely the unreliable way it did locking. The Windows source tree consists of 270GB in 3.5 million source files <http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Microsoft-GVFS-Git-Filesystem>. The obvious question is: what does all that source code do? I suspect if you add up all the sources for the packages in Debian, it would not be that large. Yet they offer far more functionality than Windows does. So what is all the Windows source code for? I don’t think it is a question any Microsoft engineer can answer...