Will “Temporarily Work Uncontrolled” allow me to retain VSS source control safely?

Question

If I move a solution to another computer, and select the Temporarily Work Uncontrolled option from the SourceSafe plugin, can I move the project back to the original computer (deleting the original solution on the original computer and replacing it with my "temporarily work uncontrolled" copy of the solution), and expect it to re-sync with SourceSafe and incorporate all of my changes?

Or is this too dangerous to attempt?

Answer 1

From my personal experience, I know that you'll be going through all sorts of weirdness. VSS will refuse to sync some files at all and will give conflict errors for some others. Also if you were to add any new projects to the solution, they wouldn't be synced when you copy the solution back.

My personal advice would be to work uncontrolled on another machine and create a .patch file (or any type of .diff file for that matter) when you're done and bring that over and apply it back to the original solution. Downside is that all the changes will appear in a single changeset.