My favourite (probably) apocryphal story on this point is that K&R used their style for no other reason that to save space (and thus publishing costs) in their book. I sooo want this to be true. What about this one: if (something) { do_something(); } While we're at it... Tabs or spaces? :-)

As everyone is saying, Subversion/Tortoise is the way to go. I'm using both Subversion and SourceSafe, and the former is far superior in every way. For example, it has atomic commits, and the putback model means that merging is a relatively safe activity disconnected from the repository. I recently performed a large and complicated merge. I created a temporary svn repository and did all the work there without problems (well... none caused by the tools anyway). When the time came to put the merged result into SourceSafe, it crashed several times before I got everything committed. And I had to stop other people from using the repository in order to avoid potential problems of non-atomicity. The company will hopefully soon shift to svn full time. Not holding my breath...