VssGet

Description

Task to perform GET commands to Microsoft Visual Source Safe.

If you specify two or more attributes from version, date and label only one will be used in the order version, date, label.

Parameters

Attribute Values Required
login username,password No
vsspath SourceSafe path Yes
localpath Override the working directory and get to the specified path No
writable true or false No
recursive true or false No
version a version number to get No
date a date stamp to get at No
label a label to get for No
ssdir directory where ss.exe resides. By default the task expects it to be in the PATH. No

Note that only one of version, date or label should be specified

Examples

<vssget localPath="C:\mysrc\myproject"
        recursive="true" 
        label="Release1"
        login="me,mypassword"
        vsspath="/source/aProject"
        writable="true"/>

Does a get on the VSS-Project $/source/aproject using the username me and the password mypassword. It will recursively get the files which are labeled Release1 and write them to the local directory C:\mysrc\myproject. The local files will be writable.


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