Find Renegades

[neal007]

Is there any way to determine what files are in Renegade status? In a large solution it's too hard to expand every folder and look. We at times, for reasons we can't figure out, get files in renegade status. We need to know where they are to resolve them. Get Latest/Automatic Merge doesn't resolve it, we need to change to "overwrite" but then you could end up losing work in this process.

We use the default checkout/edit/commit - should we change to the CVS style instead to help resolve this situation? We're losing productivity as a result.

Thanks.

[lbauer]

You could use the Search tab in the Vault GUI Client and do a recursive search on Renegade files to quickly find the renegades.

A Renegade file is one that Vault thinks is modified, but it's not checked out.

In CVS mode, there are no Renegades, all files that are modified appear in the Pending Change Set. So that might help, but you may want to try to determine what's causing the Renegades.

Sometimes files become renegade if the time stamp changes. If multiple users are using the same working folder, one user might see a file as Edited, as their client cache shows the file as checked out by them, but another user using the working folder would see that same file as Renegade.

[neal007]

Thanks Linda, only one user is on the computer, it's not a shared computer. We'll see what we can determine.

[lbauer]

A first step would be to diff the Renegade against the repository version to see if the contents had actually been modified.