Microsoft KB Archive/169257

= INFO: Actions That Perform an Implicit GET =

Article ID: 169257

Article Last Modified on 5/1/2001

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 4.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 4.0a
 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q169257



SUMMARY
Certain SourceSafe operations by default implicitly GET a local copy of a file. This is partially documented in the Online Help for the -G command line option



MORE INFORMATION
The following commands perform a GET when they are executed from the command line or the Visual SourceSafe Explorer:

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Recover

Rollback

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Undocheckout

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This is by design. SourceSafe assumes that changes made to files in a project should be echoed to the project's working folder (directory). The GET does not happen under two conditions:


 * 1) If there is no working folder set for the project in the Visual SourceSafe Explorer.
 * 2) When you use the -G- switch on the command line.

For some of these operations, the Visual SourceSafe Explorer provides a way to override the default behavior. For more information, please refer to the User's guide and Online Help for the individual commands.

Keywords: kbinfo KB169257

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