Hi everybody, I tried to look in the past posts but I couldn't find out anything helpful ... I'm running three different branches of the same project. Let's call it 5.00 (the main) 4.01 and 4.10 (which are the patches). If I have a file branched between 5.00 and 4.01 I can't branch it into 4.10 too (the menu branch is disabled). I couldn't find out anywhere that SourceSafe doesn't support more than 2 branches ... Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance Ciccio
"cicciopasticcio" wrote in message news:acd2456f-3c48-44cd-a42a-a17e0e1ca44a@s13g2000prd.googlegroups.com... > Hi everybody, > I tried to look in the past posts but I couldn't find out anything > helpful ... > I'm running three different branches of the same project. Let's call > it 5.00 (the main) 4.01 and 4.10 (which are the patches). > If I have a file branched between 5.00 and 4.01 I can't branch it into > 4.10 too (the menu branch is disabled). > I couldn't find out anywhere that SourceSafe doesn't support more than > 2 branches ... > Can anyone help me? "Branch" means to take a file that is shared between two or more projects and turn it into a unique copy that can be changed independently, so it will only work if you have a file selected that is currently shared. It is difficult to tell, but it sounds like you have two unique files in the 4.01 and 5.00 branches, and you want a non-shared copy of it in the 4.10 branch also? If so just drag the version of the file you want into the 4.10 branch (creating a shared file), and then click on the file and "Branch". Hope that helps. If not describe the layout of the projects and files and any sharing or pinning more precisely and I'll try again :^) --Mark
On Mar 26, 2:29 am, "Mark Tolonen" wrote: > "cicciopasticcio" wrote in message > > news:acd2456f-3c48-44cd-a42a-a17e0e1ca44a@s13g2000prd.googlegroups.com... > > > Hi everybody, > > I tried to look in the past posts but I couldn't find out anything > > helpful ... > > I'm running three different branches of the same project. Let's call > > it 5.00 (the main) 4.01 and 4.10 (which are the patches). > > If I have a file branched between 5.00 and 4.01 I can't branch it into > > 4.10 too (the menu branch is disabled). > > I couldn't find out anywhere that SourceSafe doesn't support more than > > 2 branches ... > > Can anyone help me? > > "Branch" means to take a file that is shared between two or more projects > and turn it into a unique copy that can be changed independently, so it will > only work if you have a file selected that is currently shared. It is > difficult to tell, but it sounds like you have two unique files in the 4.01 > and 5.00 branches, and you want a non-shared copy of it in the 4.10 branch > also? If so just drag the version of the file you want into the 4.10 branch > (creating a shared file), and then click on the file and "Branch". > > Hope that helps. If not describe the layout of the projects and files and > any sharing or pinning more precisely and I'll try again :^) > > --Mark Dear Mark, thanks for your reply. Actually I found out that there was something wrong with sharing for those files. So now it should work and the only thing is that I'll have to be careful to merge them when time will come. bye Ciccio
