What is the limit of source repositories in Visual Source Safe 2005

We're thinking of using VSS for a simulation development project so we will have both code and a pretty sizeable number of binary files (possibly several GBs or larger). I've seen references on the web to VSS limits of around 4-5 GB but I can't find any definate specs.

My first choices would be SVN or Perforce but the team has a few people who really like VSS -

From stackoverflow

• The problem here is that there are people on the team that like VSS. Please direct them to this post:

  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/690766/vss-or-svn-for-a-net-project/690847#690847

  If that doesn't break their spirit, the easiest thing to do would be:

  1. Check out your project on a remote computer through a VPN connection
  2. Edit a bunch of files.
  3. Start a commit
  4. Drop your VPN connection in the middle of the commit

  Instant VSS database corruption! Then make the people who like VSS fix it.

• Given Microsoft's update history for VSS (i.e. minimal updates to the actual tool), I would continue to follow the Microsoft VSS best practices of a max DB of 3-5GB.

• Hi,

  my experience with VSS before we migrated the teams to ClearCase is that 6 GB definitely break the tool.

  I think the recommended limit by Microsoft is 2 GB, and the maximum it can support is said to be around 4 (see link in Malachi's answer).

  I definitely know one of the VSS DB grew up to 6 GB here and get corrupted beyond repair because of the sheer size.

  Hope this help, cheers,

  Thomas