Request for doc update for users migration from VSS
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Bazaar |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Adrian Wilkins |
Bug Description
Hello
VSS (Microsoft Visual Source Safe) has a feature called "shared items". A shared file is available in mutilple places and can be checked in/out at these places. Think about a file you need at several places
Sample use:
In Visual Studio so called "Projects" have an AssemblyInfo.cs file which contains the version of the project. We now have an AssemblyInfo.cs which contains the names of the project and an AssemblyInfoAll.cs which contains the version number. If we change the version number we only change it at one place and issue a "getlatest" command afterwards which updates all AssemblyInfoAll.cs in all projects.
I had some discussions at freenode bazaar IRC channel a few weeks ago. They and the documentation (http://
This missing feature is therefore an obstacle for VSS users to move to Bazaar.
But there is a workaround. One can add a file in a Visual studio project as a link. Only relative paths as it seems, but this not bad. When referencing the file only by link instead of relaying on a physically exiting file, one can easily migrate to Bazaar.
it would be cool, if someone can add this to the vss migration page. I did a lot of reasarch and finally gave up moving to Bazaar because we had shared files until i knew this workaround. This info would probably help others too.
A short mention of "file as link" at these two places would help:
http://
http://
Thanks for your work
Ben
Related branches
- Vincent Ladeuil: Approve
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Diff: 71 lines (+52/-0)2 files modifieden/data-migration/sourcesafe-to-bazaar.txt (+50/-0)
en/survival/bzr-for-vss-users.txt (+2/-0)
description: | updated |
Changed in bzr: | |
assignee: | nobody → Adrian Wilkins (adrian-wilkins) |
status: | New → In Progress |
status: | In Progress → Fix Released |
OK, as I reread it now. This is only possible for VSS users working with Visual Studio. But the coverage of this combination is probably 99% or so...