Comment by masklinn

> Agreed. It had a funny habit of corrupting its own data store also. That's absolutely what you want in a source control system.

I still ‘member articles calling it a source destruction system. Good times.

> It sucked; but honestly, not using anything is even worse than SourceSafe.

There have always been alternatives. And even when you didn’t use anything, at least you knew what to expect. Files didn’t magically disappear from old tarballs.