How do you share/shadow the entire contents of a project even when files are added
Laurence Neville
added? After a project is shared or shadowed, when a file is added to the
project it is not added to the other shared folders or the shadow folder.
Re: Sharing - There are certain projects where I want all files present in
one folder to always be shared into another folder no matter how many
files/subfolders are added after the folder was initially shared.
Re: Shadowing - We have a Testing folder containing the code released for
testing. It is shadowed onto a drive in the test envirnment.
The only way I can see to do this at present is for the developer to do
periodic comparison of the shared folders/project folder and shadow folder
and look for files missing in the latter, then share them/Get Latest.
Thanks
Alin Constantin
When you share a folder recursively into another it's not the folder that
gets shared, but the files within it.
Any new file added to the first folder will not get shared automatically
into the other folder.
You need to manually share these files if you want to be shared (an easy way
to see which files are not shared is to look at the icons).
As for shadowing, I'm not sure what you're trying to do.
After you establish a shadow for a folder, whenever you add a file into that
folder in the VSS database there will be automatically created a file on the
shadow folder on disk. If you have a shadow folder for $/A into C:\Shadow_A
and you share files from $/B into $/A the files will appear in the shadow
folder. However, any new file added to $/B will not appear in the shadow
folder for A unless you manually share that file into $/A.
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Laurence Neville
Regarding shadowing, my expectation from reading the VSS Help was just that:
whenever you add a file into thefolder in the VSS database there will be
automatically created a file on the shadow folder on disk, but experience is
that this does not happen.
I have since read elsewhere in this group the following:
"SourceSafe will not remove deleted files from the shadow folder nor add
files without a checkin command"
What does this mean?
Laurence
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Alin Constantin
I don't know very much about shadow folders but from the definition of the
shadow folder I would have the same expectation as you do.
I made a little test using Vss 6.0c. I set a shadow folder for $/Shadowed to
C:\temp\Shadow_folder and for me these were
In my test a file was created in C:\temp\Shadow_folder whenever I was:
- adding a new file to $/Shadowed
- recovering a deleted file from $/Shadowed
- sharing into $/Shadowed a file from a different folder
The file was deleted from C:\temp\Shadow_folder whenever I was:
- deleting or destroying the file in Vss
- moving the file in vss to a different folder (drag&drop with right click
then move)
I don't know what the quote below was about...
For me it seems to work as I expected: the local folder was containing the
current versions of the files in the Vss folder.
If it doesn't work for you, we might have a bug. What is your exact scenario
that is not working?
Thank you,
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Laurence Neville
I upgraded to 6.0c (I think I was on a very old SP or none at all) and it
solved the problem. I now get exactly the behaviour you described!
Many thanks
Laurence
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