what exactly is the source safe used for

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Newbee Adam said:
what exactly is the source safe used for
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Source control. It means that:

1) You can see who's done what
2) You can go back to previous versions of files
3) You can label a specific version, and fetch that version across a
whole project
4) You can share files between different projects
5) Lots of developers can work on the same codebase without having to
manually send each other the files they've changed
6) You can lose all your code due to VSS database corruption

As you can probably tell by the last point, I'm far from a fan of
SourceSafe - there are better source control systems out there
 
Source Safe is a source control system. What that means is that it
maintains a history of all changes so that you can compare different
versions to see what has happened. This can help when some new code is not
working but you do you remember what the code looked like before. It also
allows team collaboration by having one central location for all source
code, then other team members can simply download the most recent stuff
periodically.
 
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