Recommendations Please

dsmith · Post by **dsmith** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 11:35 am

We are converting to Vault. All our development is in Visual Basic 6. We have 2 main products which we were going to put into two separate repositories, no problem. However, we have a "Common" Visual Basic project which contains a number of DLL's etc that are common to both projects. What is the recommended approach to doing this with Vault. My suggestions are:

1. Import the "Common" folder from SourceSafe to both of our new repositories
2. Only use 1 repository
3. Put the "Common" folder in 1 of the new repositories. Will VB handle having projects in multiple repositories

Can anyone help.

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 11:46 am

We don't recommend #3 because having a project with files in two different repositories doesn't work. (We had some reports that this did work, but subsequent testing showed problems.)

If you want to keep the files in "Common" shared, so that any changes will be reflected in both projects, then just use one repository.

Use two different repositories only if you will not need to share files between these projects at all.

See this link for more discussion of setting up repositories:
http://support.sourcegear.com/viewtopic.php?p=5183