Adding files from subdirectories results in missing status

vrapp · Post by **vrapp** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:45 pm

Hello,

In file system, I have directory X with several subdirectories with files.

In Vault, I have directory Y which working directory is set to X.

The subdirectories of X each have multiple files; I want to add only one file from each subdirectory to Vault.

I right-click Y in Vault, select "add files/folders", then select subdirectories one by one, and check one file I want to add in each*. When I do it, Vault sets repository path of each file to $/Y/file.

In other words, even though the real files are in subdirectories, I add them all to the root of Y in Vault.

Then I commit the change, it finishes successfully, but in Vault the status of each file is Missing.

I think, if Vault does not support individual working directory per-file, then it probably shouldn't allow adding the files without subdirectories?

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*) by the way, as suggestion, it would be convenient to have a button "select files by filter" in that dialog, similar to the existing "exclude".

Terence · Post by **Terence** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:04 pm

If you add the file(s) to Y, and the working directory for Y is X, then those files are missing (as they don't exist on disk in X, but rather a subdirectory of X).

In Vault, the working folder is set at the Project (folder icon) level.

vrapp · Post by **vrapp** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:42 pm

so is it valid then to add files without subdirectories? I guess if Vault allows this, then there must be some way to work with those files then?

Terence · Post by **Terence** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:52 pm

You may safely add a file from any location on disk to a project (folder icon) in the Vault repository.

vrapp · Post by **vrapp** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 3:55 pm

...and if I do, and then I want to check out that file, will it be checked out to the place from where it was added? or to the working directory defined for the project?

Terence · Post by **Terence** » Wed Jul 25, 2007 4:01 pm

To the working directory defined for the Project.

However, there is another option. If you want to match your disk hierarchy, you can add the subdirectory itself to the Project. Doing so will create a sub Project off of Y (from your earlier example). You may then set the working folder for the newly created sub Project to that of the sub folder where you added the file(s).

Then your gets, check ins, and check outs will occur in the sub directory.