Diconnected mode in Source Safe

Question

I'm working on an application which has Source Safe as it's source control.

Today the sourceSafe(SS) machince has problems and our tech people are fixing the machine.

In this Scenario I can only work on the project(visual Studio 2003 C#) in an offline mode.

Question is what do you think about this? is this safe? I mean if the SS gets back online and I have already made changes to somefiles, does the merge goes smoothly or I should wait for SS machine to come up before chaging any code?

I would also like to know your opintion what happens in the scenario above with any other Version-cnotrol Software (SVN,CVS, ...) If you have experience for similar scenario with any software, your feedback is appreciated.

Answer 1

Are you the only one who works on the files? If so, it should be fine. You can make changes offline and check them into VSS DB when it's online. If you have multiple people working on the same files, there would be problem when you try to check in & merge changes from different members.