Get old files and branch them?

[erict]

I've messed up and need to retrieve all files as they were in May. A bunch of files have been updated since, but many are unchanged. I saw a post that describes that in History one can get all files for a folder by date -- but I'm thick in the head and don't get it. If I do a show history for a specific date (in my case May 13th), I see no files, since nothing was updated that day. If I just do a show history for my folder I see a bunch fo files and I can draw a mental line in the history where I want my files. But how do I say GET that includes all the files in that folder, even the ones that were last changed in, say, 2004?

Ideally I would like to branch at that point and label the branch. Can I do that?

Thanks for all help.

Eric T.

[erict]

OK, I figured something out. When Showing history, ask for "View Folder history by Version". That seems to get me what I want. If I select a particular version in the Folder Versions view and then click Label, will I label it at that point in history? And if I clicked Branch I would branch all those files from that version into a separate project?

Thanks for any and all help...

Eric T

[lbauer]

If I select a particular version in the Folder Versions view and then click Label, will I label it at that point in history? And if I clicked Branch I would branch all those files from that version into a separate project?

Yes, the label will be applied to the specific version you selected.

And yes, the folder will be branched to a separate project at that version.

[jxsanche]

One quick tidbit that I just learned (related to this topic).

If you have a SourceSafe repository and your app is stored at '$/MyApp' but when you migrate it to vault you change the folder to '$/trunk', for example, if you want to branch out of a label that was created from SourceSafe, it will not let you do that.

I don't think this is so much because the label was created before the migration but rather that the folder name when the label was originally created is different from the current one. At least that's what it seems...

I hope this helps,
Julian

[lbauer]

That's quite possible. For shares and labels to work during and after the import, the Vault repository structure (and folder names) should match those in VSS.