How VSS Handles Files ?

How VSS Handles Files

     

Differences in how VSS treats binary and text files:

Storing changes - Internally, VSS uses different mechanisms for storing changes for text files (which have distinct lines as units of comparison) and binary files (which have no obvious line delimiter). That's why it is important for VSS to correctly identify the type of a file. VSS identifies files as binary if a NULL character exists in the file.

Source code control

The management of a file's changes history and the file's relation to a larger grouping of related files known as a project. Source code control is a vital part of the efficient development of software applications. VSS is a project-oriented source code control.

Version Control

VSS can maintain multiple versions of a file, including a record of the changes to the file from version to version.Like: Team coordination

Version tracking, Cross-platform development, Reusable or object-oriented code