Batch merging of branch code and comments

[brewer531]

I would like to be able to merge my entire engineering team's changes to a branched version of our code base into the trunk. The problem I'm having is that when I merge everyone's changes, 1) the user who made the change is not preserved and 2) more importantly, I have to re-type the comments that each person used in their check in. Does Vault have any kind of batch merging facility? The new merge branches wizard merges everything but the end result is that I have a bunch of files checked out and am faced with retyping a bunch of comments. I thought I remember version 1 of Vault doing this when I originally evaluated it.

Jeff Brewer
Paycycle, Inc.

p.s. Vault has been a fantasic replacement for VSS. Our company was looking at CVS and I'm sure glad we didn't go that route.

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I would like to be able to merge my entire engineering team's changes to a branched version of our code base into the trunk. The problem I'm having is that when I merge everyone's changes, 1) the user who made the change is not preserved and 2) more importantly, I have to re-type the comments that each person used in their check in. Does Vault have any kind of batch merging facility? The new merge branches wizard merges everything but the end result is that I have a bunch of files checked out and am faced with retyping a bunch of comments. I thought I remember version 1 of Vault doing this when I originally evaluated it.

I don't think Vault has ever done either of these two things. Version 2.1 will copy the comments over during the merge operation. However, the merge operation is still attributed to the user who did not the merge, not to the user (s) who made the changes being merged.

p.s. Vault has been a fantasic replacement for VSS. Our company was looking at CVS and I'm sure glad we didn't go that route.

Thanks!