I can see in the documentation you can't share a file to a folder that has a file of the same name, so I assume the only way to duplicate a file (keeping the history of course) is: 1. create a temporary project 2. share and branch to that project 3. rename the branched file 4. share and branch the renamed file back to the original project 5. delete the temporary project (and the branched file still contained therein). Is this really the simplest way to do this? (Drag'n'drop in VSS is disabled completely where the source and target project are the same.) -- Regards, Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.) (Hons.)
"Mark Hurd" wrote in message news:%23Q8KcHcqIHA.3408@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... >I can see in the documentation you can't share a file to a folder that has >a file of the same name, so I assume the only way to duplicate a file >(keeping the history of course) is: > > 1. create a temporary project > 2. share and branch to that project > 3. rename the branched file > 4. share and branch the renamed file back to the original project > 5. delete the temporary project (and the branched file still contained > therein). > > Is this really the simplest way to do this? (Drag'n'drop in VSS is > disabled completely where the source and target project are the same.) > > -- > Regards, > Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.) (Hons.) > What I've done is: 1. In the target project, branch the target file if it is already shared. 2. Rename and delete (not destroy!) the target file. 3. Share from the source project to the target project. Older labels in the target project can still recover the original file, since it still exists (renamed) in the deleted files for that project. The newly shared file can still be deleted because there won't be a duplicate file in the deleted files for the project, since it was renamed. -Mark
