managing multiple branches

[wesuser]

Hi,

I am just wondering if you could suggest a good way to manage multiple branches using Vault. Currently we have about 5 branches active, and we need devs to check in the code into specific multiple branches depending on the release. The problem is, no matter how many emails and notifications were sent out, most of the time, code is still checked into the wrong branches, or not checked into all of the ones it needs to go into. Is there a way to show a popup window of some sort everytime they check into a branch reminding them to also check it into so and so branch? Or maybe you could suggest something?

Thanks so much for your help.

[lbauer]

Are users using Visual Studio? If so, we'd suggest that before developers begin to work on a branch, they open the project fresh from source control. This means backing up their working directories and in Visual Studio, use the command File->Source Control->Open from Source Control to fetch the project into a new working directory.

Once this is done, the project will be bound to the specific branch location in the repository and all checkouts and checkins will be to that branch.

If you're not using Visual Studio then, no, there's no popup to remind users to checkin to a specific location. However if users set a working directory for the branch, modify the files in that working directory, then check files in from that working directory, the files should be updating the proper branch.