INFO: Visual SourceSafe System Capacities and Specifications

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.
  Log file: 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.

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String Lengths

• Project Path (for example, $/Word/Spelling): maximum length 257 characters (including the $/).
• 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 SourceSafe 4.0: 15 characters.
  Visual SourceSafe 5.0: 31 characters.
• File or project Label: 31 characters.
• String to scan for when using "Find in Files": 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:
  GUI = 4095 characters
  Command Line = 511 characters

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