Hello,
I noticed today that the online help for the Vault Options dialog does not mention these options:
-- Always display command dialog on Get Latest Version
-- Always disconnect from server on Add/Open To/From source control
The first one seems reasonably obvious, and while I think I understand what the second one does, I don't have a clue why I'd select the option. Perhaps v3.0's online help can shed some light!
Thanks!
Documentation request
Moderator: SourceGear
Documentation request
David Thompson
JELD-WEN, inc.
JELD-WEN, inc.
Looks like a documentation oversight. We'll get this fixed for 3.0.
To answer your questions though:
1) The "Always display Get Latest dialog" option annoyingly brings up the Get dialog every time Visual Studio calls the Get API, which is far more often that it seems it should. So, we don't bring up a dialog by default, so it doesn't get in the way. However, some people want to be able to control each and every Get option, so we allow them to turn it on.
2) The "Always disconnect" option is supposed to allow you to connect to different servers within the same IDE session (so if you invoke Open From Source Control, it will prompt you to login to a possibly different server, rather than force you into the same server). However, there are a few cases where this doesn't work correctly, which are being addressed in 3.0.
To answer your questions though:
1) The "Always display Get Latest dialog" option annoyingly brings up the Get dialog every time Visual Studio calls the Get API, which is far more often that it seems it should. So, we don't bring up a dialog by default, so it doesn't get in the way. However, some people want to be able to control each and every Get option, so we allow them to turn it on.
2) The "Always disconnect" option is supposed to allow you to connect to different servers within the same IDE session (so if you invoke Open From Source Control, it will prompt you to login to a possibly different server, rather than force you into the same server). However, there are a few cases where this doesn't work correctly, which are being addressed in 3.0.