Sourcesafe command line options

command-line visual-sourcesafe default-value prompt suppression
user26901 picture user26901 · Mar 12, 2009 · Viewed 16.4k times · Source

I am having an issue with the Microsoft Visual Sourcesafe command line options that I'm hoping someone has run across and can assist me with.

I have the following line in a DOS batch file.

"c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual SourceSafe\ss.exe" GET 
    "$/Development Projects/Activity" -GL"C:\Compile\Activity" -R -Q 
    -Yname,password

When this line is executed in the batch file the following prompt appears ...

Set C:\Compile\Activity as the default folder for project $/Development Projects/Activity?(Y/N)

I need to suppress this prompt in order to let the script run unattended. I thought the -Q option would allow silent running but it does not suppress this prompt.

I've searched and can't seem to find an option that will remove this prompt. I don't want to set the default folder for the project so I would like to default the answer to "N" if possible.

Answer

Ian Vaughan picture Ian Vaughan · Feb 22, 2011

-I-Y Answers Yes to all Yes or No questions

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/028cya07%28v=vs.80%29.aspx

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