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date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:46:09 GMT,
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Re: VSS 2005 (v8.0) - Setting working folders in subprojects
"GCB-atWork-Toronto" <u43302@uwe> wrote in message news:837538593cfb6@uwe...
> How do I guarantee that changing the working folder of a project with
> subprojects also changes the working folders of subprojects? In my case
> subprojects reflect the subfolders on the hard drive that contain the
> source
> files.
>
> VSS is a bit strange in the way all this is handled. For example say we
> have
>
> Project1
> Project1\subproject1
> Project1\subproject2
>
> On the hard-drive say we have
>
> C:\Project1-V1.0
> C:\Project1-V1.0\subproject1
> C:\Project1-V1.0\subproject2
>
> and
>
> C:\Project1-V1.1
> C:\Project1-V1.1\subproject1
> C:\Project1-V1.1\subproject2
>
> If I change the working folder from C:\Project1-V1.0 to C:\Project1-V1.1,
> I
> usually have to change the working folder of subproject1 and subproject2
> individually, at which point subprojects of subproject1 and subproject2
> *are"
> changed automatically; I don't have to go through the entire heirarchy and
> modify all the working folders of every subproject, only the second level
> of
> the hierarchy.
>
> I can live with that, but the kicker is that if you ever inidvidually
> change
> a lower subproject to "break away" to a folder somewhere else on the hard
> drive, that information is retained and is not changed when upper projects
> are later given a new working folder. This is very dangerous if the
> assumption is made that changing a project working folder changes
> subproject
> working folders.
>
> In Options > General, "Act on projects recursively" is *checked*.
>
> So the question is
>
> 1. How to either (a) check whether or (b) gurantee that subproject
> working
> folders follow higher project working folders. Any other options or
> procedures I should know about ?
>
In VSS 6.0d, you could select projects that had working folders, click the
"set working folder" button, and clear the dialog. That would make it
inherit the working folder from higher in the project tree. Unfortunately
VSS 2005 no long allows this. But, in your database's database folder,
there will be a "users/<username>/ss.ini" file. This file has the mappings
for all your working folders and you can manually delete any you don't want
set.
Also, when you get a project recursively, you can select "build tree,
override working folders" and all subprojects that have specific working
folders set will be ignored.
> 2. What are the rules on how subproject working folders get assigned
> automatically?
They are set automatically if they don't have a specific folder set, and a
higher level project has one set. Again, the settings are in the user's
SS.INI file and you can manually edit the file and remove the ones you don't
want.
FYI: working folders are set on a per user *and* per computer basis. You
will see the names of the workstations in the SS.INI file qualifying each
setting.
-Mark
date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:44:38 -0700
author: Mark Tolonen
Re: VSS 2005 (v8.0) - Setting working folders in subprojects
Mark, thanks once again, your remarks were spot on and exactly what I needed
to know.
Gerry
Mark Tolonen wrote:
>> How do I guarantee that changing the working folder of a project with
>> subprojects also changes the working folders of subprojects? In my case
>[quoted text clipped - 48 lines]
>> folders follow higher project working folders. Any other options or
>> procedures I should know about ?
>
>In VSS 6.0d, you could select projects that had working folders, click the
>"set working folder" button, and clear the dialog. That would make it
>inherit the working folder from higher in the project tree. Unfortunately
>VSS 2005 no long allows this. But, in your database's database folder,
>there will be a "users/<username>/ss.ini" file. This file has the mappings
>for all your working folders and you can manually delete any you don't want
>set.
>
>Also, when you get a project recursively, you can select "build tree,
>override working folders" and all subprojects that have specific working
>folders set will be ignored.
>
>> 2. What are the rules on how subproject working folders get assigned
>> automatically?
>
>They are set automatically if they don't have a specific folder set, and a
>higher level project has one set. Again, the settings are in the user's
>SS.INI file and you can manually edit the file and remove the ones you don't
>want.
>
>FYI: working folders are set on a per user *and* per computer basis. You
>will see the names of the workstations in the SS.INI file qualifying each
>setting.
>
>-Mark
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