What's the right way to branch with Visual Source Safe?

Question

What I currently do is I link the project to another location and give it the same name, then check the box where it says \"Branch after share.\" And then I would Check out

Answer 1

That is the generally accepted way of branching your source code in SourceSafe. The only other way to do it, if merging and retaining the history are not an issue, is to copy the files to a new folder, remove the read-only attribute, remove the .vssscc and .scc files, and then add that new project to SourceSafe. At that point, you have an all new project, with no prior history.