PROBLEM: VCS w/Visual SourceSafe

[Leigh Kendall]

I'm having trouble opening projects using Visual SourceSafe. I can open the project OK, but when I try to check out files, there is only one folder in the check out window with no name; the subdirectories don't show.

If I use a root folder only for my scripts, works fine. But if the root folder has nothing in it, and all the scripts are in subdirectories, then I get the problem described in paragraph 1.

Is it only possible to use a single heirarchy project w/SourceSafe and PLSQL Developer? In the VCS help doc, there's a graphic that shows a MKS project with subdirectories that contain scripts.

Please help... Thanks,

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Leigh Kendall

[This message has been edited by lkendall (edited 25 March 2003).]

 

[Marco Kalter]

Unfortunately Visual SourceSafe does not know the concept of controlled sub-directories like other VCS tools such as PVCS and MKS. The screenshot from the documentation is from MKS. Visual SourceSafe uses sub-projects instead, but oddly enough this concept is not encapsulated in Microsoft's own SCC standard, which PL/SQL Developer uses as a common interface to all VCS systems.

As a result, you explicitly need to open a sub-project in order to access its files, which may be cumbersome if you have a lot of sub-projects.

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Marco Kalter
Allround Automations

 

[Leigh Kendall]

Humm... That's what I was afraid of. For the life of me I couldn't get the subprojects to open in PL/SQL Developer & VSS and as such concluded it must not be available.

Thanks for confirming...

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Leigh Kendall