About (Command Line)

Displays information about your copy of Visual SourceSafe.

Add (Command Line)

Adds new files to the Visual SourceSafe database.

Branch (Command Line)

Breaks a share link and creates a branch of a file in a project.

Checkin (Command Line)

Updates the database with changes made to a checked out file and unlocks the master copy.

Checkout (Command Line)

Checks out a file and makes the working copy of the file in the current project writable.

Cloak (Command Line)

Hides a project from recursive Get, Check Out, Check In, Undo Check Out, and Project Differences commands.

Comment (Command Line)

Changes the previously entered comment for a specific version of a file or project.

Copy (Command Line)

Copies one or more files in one project to another project.

CP (Command Line)

Sets the current project path.

Create (Command Line)

Creates a new subproject.

Decloak (Command Line)

Removes the cloaked attribute from a project.

Delete (Command Line)

Removes files and projects from the database, and marks them as deleted.

Deploy (Command Line)

Deploys a project to a server or FTP location.

Destroy (Command Line)

Permanently removes a file or project.

Diff (File) (Command Line)

Shows the line-by-line differences between a Visual SourceSafe database master copy of a file and the corresponding file in your working folder.

Diff (Project) (Command Line)

Shows the differences between a Visual SourceSafe database master copy of a project and the corresponding project in your working folder.

Dir (Command Line)

Shows a list of all the files and subprojects in the specified project, or in the current project.

Filetype (Command Line)

Sets the file type for one or more files.

FindinFiles (Command Line)

Shows all occurrences of a specified string in one or more files, or in an entire project (all files).

Get (Command Line)

Retrieves read-only copies of the specified Visual SourceSafe files or projects to your working folder.

Help (Command Line)

Displays general help for using Visual SourceSafe in a Microsoft Windows Help file.

History (Command Line)

Shows the history of a file or project in Visual SourceSafe.

Label (Command Line)

Assigns a label to the specified items (files or projects).

Links (Command Line)

Shows the projects that share the specified file(s).

Locate (Command Line)

Searches Visual SourceSafe projects for the specified files or projects.

Merge (Command Line)

Combines the contents of two file copies that have the same name but are part of different projects.

Move (Command Line)

Relocates a subproject from one parent project to another.

Password (Command Line)

Sets the password for the current user.

Paths (Command Line)

Shows all share links for files that have been branched.

Physical (Command Line)

Determines the physical location of a Visual SourceSafe-encrypted file in a Visual SourceSafe database.

Pin (Command Line)

Marks files at a specific version number in the current project.

Project (Command Line)

Displays the current project path.

Properties (Command Line)

Shows the properties of a Visual SourceSafe file or project.

Purge (Command Line)

Permanently removes previously deleted files and projects from a Visual SourceSafe database.

Recover (Command Line)

Recovers files and projects that have been deleted.

Rename (Command Line)

Changes the name of a file or project.

Rollback (Command Line)

Undoes all changes since an earlier version of a file.

Share (Command Line)

Makes the specified file or project part of the current project.

Status (Command Line)

Shows checkout information on files.

Undocheckout (Command Line)

Cancels a Check Out operation, voiding all changes.

Unpin (Command Line)

Undoes a Pin operation, ignoring files that are not pinned.

View (Command Line)

Displays the contents of the specified file.

Whoami (Command Line)

Shows your current Visual SourceSafe user name.

WorkFold

Sets the working folder.

All commands can be abbreviated, as long as the abbreviation resolves to a unique supported command. For example, the following commands are equivalent:

ss find $/a.txt
ss FindInFiles $/a.txt

Many of the previous commands have alias commands that perform the same function. The following table lists these alias commands:

CP

CD, ChPro

Diff

Difference

Dir

LD, Directory

Create

MD, MP, MkPro

FindinFiles

Grep, Scan

Delete

Remove

Branch

Separate

Undocheckout

Uncheckout

Recover

Undelete

Checkin

Update

Locate

WhereIs

You can also define your own aliases by adding commands to your ss.ini file under the [Commands] section as follows:

alias=command

For example, if you included the following in your ss.ini file:

WF=Workfold

Then the following commands would be equivalent:

SS WF $/ C:\Folder
SS WF $/ C:\Folder

Note   The aliases you enter in your ss.ini file change the aliases supported for you only.

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