Vault licencing and some technical issues

NoWay · Post by **NoWay** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 7:51 am

Hi,

I have a question regarding Vault licencing and some technical issues.

First of all I'd like to know if I read this correctly:

"Each Vault user license provides the right to have one named user account on one Vault server.There is no separate pricing for client and server software. Simply buy one user license for each named user account you need. Vault and Dragnet are free when used by a single user." (http://www.sourcegear.com/vault/pricing.html)

I am the only user of Vault server so I assume I may use this software free of charge. But I do my programming both at work and sometimes later at home (never at the same time -- well, not yet

-- so I use/need only one named user: which is Admin by default as I recall). If I would like to use Vault this way: two clients (at work and at home) connecting (not simultaneously) to one Vault server (at work), one user, is it still free to use for me?

And if the answer is YES, there comes my technical question. Can I have (I didn't tested this solution) two independent working folders (WF) for the same project in my repository (one WF at work and the other one at home)? And how to stay synchronized? Do I checkout -> make my changes -> checkin at work and then do the same thing (checkout latest version -> edit -> checkin) later at home? What if I can not / will not checkin my changes at home and the next day I make further changes at work... can i use edit-merge-commit later on to synchronize my projects at home and at work? What are my options here?

Thank you
Maciek

Beth · Post by **Beth** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 9:18 am

Your understanding of the licensing is correct.

Working folders are an area on your local disk for performing work. When a proper checkout is performed, Vault will know that you edited the file. Vault won't have the changes though until you check them in. Since there's only one user involved here going to multiple places, I would assume you would want the changes you made at work to be available at home. In that case you would check the file in.

You can also check it out in both locations and perform a merge later.