Eclipse VSS Plugin Reigns Death

While the cool kids use Subversion for source control, I use Visual Source Safe and I'm usually glad to have it.

However, the VSS plugin for Eclipse, while providing the critical hooks into Eclipse required to keep the code flowing like wine, is especially dangerous. Two things about it have unleashed hell upon unsuspecting developers in a team environment:

Team --> Refresh gets latest from the VSS repository and overwrites everything in the working folder, including checked out files. Nice feature.

The dialog box of doom shows up several times, usually first thing in the morning, and prompts unsuspecting developers to clean up the development environment by deleting local files that have supposedly been removed from VSS. Here's a doctored version:

But why does this box show up even when the files have not been removed from VSS? Clicking Yes to All smokes the files in question from the development environment. If you're lucky, you can wipe your entire intranet with the click of one button. This thing can be a real killer.

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[A-hole]

You're a big nerd.