VCS plug-in bug?

[Aviga]

Hello,

I noticed that any label was ignored when adding a new file to a version-controled project.

This is a reproducable error.

Labels are correctly set when checking in existing project files.

Best regards,

A.

 

[Marco Kalter]

What exactly is a label?

 

[Aviga]

Hi Marco,

This is a tag which identifies a version (or revision) of a file, or, more often, different versions of a set of files; it is mostly used to associate them to a specific patch, build, branch... so that they can later be identified/retrieved using this user-defined name.

Each versioned file can be associated to one or several labels, however each label can only be associated to a given revision of a specific file.

In brief, this is a must-have feature of any version control system.

When you get or check out a file, you can either specify a revision number or a label.

I hope it's clearer.

Cheers,

 

[Marco Kalter]

A Label is a version control system specific concept, and is not part of the Microsoft SCC specification as used by the VCS Plug-In. When an SCC function is called to add a file to version control, the SCC Interface Library of the version control system you are using can prompt for additional information such as labels, or can obtain information from some specific context (such as the current activity/task/change/...). Maybe you can contact your vesion control system vendor about this issue?

 

[Aviga]

Hi Marco,

Indeed we are prompted for this piece of information (through an "Options..." button), however it's not well used everywhere.

I'll contact the vcs vendor.

Thanks.

Avigael