Visual SourceSafe System Capacities and Specifications

• Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, versions 4.0, 5.0

SUMMARY

This article contains information concerning the system capacities of Visual SourceSafe.

NOTE: All capacities are related to versions 4.0 and 5.0 of Visual SourceSafe unless otherwise noted.

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General Specifications & Limits

• Users running Visual SourceSafe concurrently: Unlimited.
• Files and projects in a SourceSafe Database: approx. 4 billion.
• Files and projects directly in a single project: 8191 (however, for performance reasons, Microsoft recommends that there be no more than a few hundred files in a single project).
• Nested project Depth: 15 (this is a recommended limit. You may add more than 15 projects, but Microsoft only supports nested projects 15 levels deep).
• Bytes in a file:

  Visual SourceSafe 4.0: 64 megabytes. Visual SourceSafe 5.0: 2 gigabytes

• Lines in the Windows View Command: 64,000.
• Versions in a file or project history: 32,767 (the count on a project history does not include file Updates in that project).
• Bytes in the Windows history display: 32,767.
• Lines in a project history: 8191.
• Files correlated in a project history: 8191.

String Lengths

• Project Path (for example, $/Word/Spelling): 259 Characters.
• Filename: 255 characters (all platforms except MS-DOS and 16-bit Windows). A short (8.3) name is also stored for compatibility with the FAT file system. Names are not case sensitive.
• Username: 31 characters.
• Password:

  Visual SourseSafe 4.0: 15 characters. Visual SourceSafe 5.0: 31 characters.

• File or project Label: 31 characters.
• String to "Scan" for: 63 characters.
• Line in the SS.INI file: 511 characters.
• Length of a checkout comment: 63 characters.
• Length of a check in or label comment: 4095 characters.