Sets and changes general configuration options.
To display the General tab from VSS:
Any VSS user can use this tab.
Tab Options
Keeps a file checked out to your working folder, even if you check it in. With this option, a file is copied to the VSS database, but left checked out to you, so that you can update the database with your changes, but continue working on the file.
Performs all actions on a selected project recursively, that is, the command is applied to the subprojects (and their subprojects, and so forth) as well as to the selected project. This is useful if you have a project with many subprojects that you want to check out and check in as a unit.
Uses the last comment for the next command. For example, if you check in a file with the comment "Added hyperlink jumps to our Help menu," and then check another file in, the comment " Added hyperlink jumps to our Help menu " is automatically entered in the comment box. If you modify the comment, VSS uses the changed comment for the next command.
When you check in a file, and you have made no changes to that file, VSS looks at this option to determine what to do. Click Check In to have VSS automatically update the VSS database even if VSS detects no changes to the file being checked in. This also increments the file's version number. Click Undo Check Out to have VSS automatically undo the check out of any unchanged file you try to check in. Click Ask to have VSS display a dialog box asking what you want to do for each unchanged file you try to check in. Click Default to have VSS depend on the specific initialization file settings for each project to determine what to do with unchanged files.
Click Yes to always use VSS's Visual Merge feature when merging files after a branch or multiple check out. Click No to use VSS's manual merging feature (used in previous versions of VSS). Click "Only if there are conflicts" to use VSS's Visual Merge feature when there are conflicting changes in the two files to be merged, and use VSS's automatic merge otherwise.
This option controls what command VSS executes when you double-click on a file in the VSS Explorer. Click Ask (the default) to always ask whether to view a file or edit the file on a double-click selection from the VSS Explorer. Click View File to always view the VSS database version of this file (without being able to edit it), or click Edit File to always edit the file (open the file, with checked-out status, in your working folder). Holding the Shift key down while double-clicking a file will override this setting to Ask.
Sets the editor used to display files when you select the View command. Click Browse to display the Open dialog box and select an editor.
Sets a folder in which to store temporary files used by VSS. The default is the TEMP subfolder under the folder in which SRCSAFE.INI is stored. Click Browse to display the Select Temporary Folder dialog box.