Renaming on Disk or VSIDE not caught by Vault

George Mills · Post by **George Mills** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 4:43 pm

Maybe there is a way Vault can do this but I'm not handling this correctly.

If someone renames a file from VS IDE or on disk

Vault loses track.

The problem is, it is very hard to use Refactor tools that rename a class for example they may automatically rename the file.

I understand this is Tricky problem because you may have several files that you renamed and you don't know who is who.

Is this an impossible problem?

dan · Post by **dan** » Fri Jan 07, 2005 4:53 pm

Yea, I think this is a problem that is beyond the scope of Vault. I can't think of a good way to definitively identify a renamed file on disk as having once been the same file as one in Vault.

However, if you do rename a file in Vault, it should be smart enough to rename that file on a Get Latest to another client.