Missing diff options from VSS

cdaniel · Post by **cdaniel** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 6:08 pm

Two things that I can't locate in Vault that I really miss from VSS:

1. When viewing a directory difference, the ability to Add files, check out, check in, get latest directly from the difference listing.

2. A "show differences" button on the check-in dialog.

Am I missing something? New features for version 2.1?

Post by **jclausius** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 8:44 pm

1) I've added this enhancement request in your name.

2) See screen shot.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 5:16 pm

Great! That's 1/2 of it. How about getting the Get/Check In/Check Out/Add/Merge/... functions onto the directory difference window as well? That one's even more important in my opinion - I use that feature of VSS nearly every time I use the VSS client (in fact, that's basically the only feature of the VSS client that I use at all!)

-cd

Post by **jclausius** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 8:41 pm

It turns out this feature has been requested one other time. I've added your name to this list.

If others would also like to add their name to the list, please let me know.

Post by **jeremy_sg** » Sat Jun 05, 2004 8:51 pm

As a suggestion, you could look at Vault's Status Search pane, which lets you search for files of a certain status (Old, Needs Merge, etc). You can use this pane to find files that you need to pay attention to, and then use the regular get/diff operations.

cdaniel · Post by **cdaniel** » Mon Jun 07, 2004 10:15 am

That's a help, thanks! I like the all-in-one-place feature of VSS better, but the search by status is a start. In fact, having now played with Status Search a bit, I'd like to see additions there as well - for example, if I search by 'Edited' status, I'd like to multiple-select several files and choose "Check In" for those files directly from the search results pane rather than navigating to those files in the project tree. "show differences" does appear there - just need a few more options. One thing that Status Search can't show is files on the filesystem but NOT in Vault - IMO one of the most important sets to see.