Congratulations to myself! Finally beat SourceSafe and installed Subversion instead of it. There was a long time that we thought it’s the end of SourceSafe specially when using it offline but we needed confirmation of boss. Nowruz holidays was a good time for a thorough reading of Subversion. Just days after end of holidays, we migrated from SourceSafe to Subversion.Installing Subversion was not as hard as I thought. In server I just installed slik subversion and followed a very concise guideline in CODING HORROR. After then each client installed TortoiseSVN and AnkhSVN and desired SourceSafe sources imported to Subversion. The only problem that we saw was an incompatibility between Subversion itself and its clients, AnkhSVN and TortoiseSVN. I was using latest version (at the time) of TortoiseSVN and AnkhSVN with an relative old version of Subversion. This caused AnkhSVN error message that was saying you should downgrade something. To get rid of this error I uninstalled everything, downloaded all latest versions (Slik Subversion 1.6.9, TortoiseSVN 1.6.7.18415 and AnkhSvn 2.1.7819.411) and installed them again.
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You should've give VisualSVN Server a try, it is easy to install and config. And it's standard edition is free of course.
Nice post
As you mentioned the problem with VisualSVN is its license.