Update share without Commit?

[CdrJameson]

Hello,

Is there any way for me to locally update all my shares to the current modified version on my hard drive without having to do a commit->update?

Currently if I'm working on a shared file I have to either:
- Commit it, and if I've broken any of the other projects that share it quickly fix them before the build server notices.
- Manually copy the modified file to the places where it is shared, and check that they build before committing.

The first of these involves checking in code not knowing whether it will break the build or not - a bad thing.
The second relies on me both knowing which files are shared, and with whom, and is tedious and error prone.

Is there (or could there be) a button/menu option/right click menu option called 'update shared copies to this change' which would take my locally modified files and automatically copy them to all the places where they are shared? In this way I could check that I haven't broken a related project before I commit a change.

Ta.

[lbauer]

There's no "share preview" currently available in Vault. I've logged feature request 16030 for this functionality. It will be evaluated for an upcoming release of Vault.

You could consider branching from the parent folder of the projects, then do your coding/testing using the branch. Once everything works as expected, you can merge the change into the trunk or simply update the shared files in the trunk.