How can you detect renegade files?

[steveculshaw]

Is there some way to detect renegade files anywhere in a tree , similar to the Right Click menu "Detect New Files to add" ?

[lbauer]

At the bottom of the Vault client is a Search tab. You can search for files of a particular status, such as Renegade. To see everything in your working directories that is Renegade (modified but not checked out), hightlight the root directory, $/, and choose to do a recursive search for files with Renegade status.

[steveculshaw]

Excellent, that works a treat Linda

Thanks again for the help

Cheers,
SteveC.

[lbauer]

You're welcome.

[thomas woelfer]

Linda,

is there any way to notify me i there are renegades after the get latest, using vs integration, has finished? i keep seeing renegades here that i simply cannot explain how the become renegade - but as vault knows they are there, it would be nice if it could notify me at least...

WM_THX
-thomas woelfer

[lbauer]

If you are using Enhanced Client integration with Visual Studio, renegad files in the project will have a little blue flag glyph next to them.

When you diff these renegade files with the database version, are they different? If not, could something have changed the timestamp?

[thomas woelfer]

Linda,

>> renegad files in the project will have a little blue flag glyph next to them.

yes, i know, but that doesn't help. my solution has 84 projects and close to 15.000 files in it - the little blue flags don't really help in this case. i'd prefer some kind of information in the output pane or suchlike. (for example, there could be a list of renegades beeing displayed in the "source control" output pane).

>> When you diff these renegade files with the database version, are they different?

well, yes, of course they are. that's why we see compilation errors... i really don't understand why this is happening: after a "get latest", the latest version should simply be on the local machine, shouldn't it?

WM_THX
-thomas woelfer

[lbauer]

well, yes, of course they are. that's why we see compilation errors... i really don't understand why this is happening: after a "get latest", the latest version should simply be on the local machine, shouldn't it?

If a file is Renegade, a Get Latest may not overwrite it. The default for Get is "Attempt Automatic Merge."

When you diff, what kind of changes are in the file? Is there some process that's changing them?

You could set your Get option to "overwrite". This setting is in Visual Studio under Tools->Options->Source Control->Vault Options->Advanced Options-> Local Files->Modified Working Copy.

Regarding a list of renegade files, I've logged feature request 14660 for this functionality in Visual Studio Enhanced Client integration.

[thomas woelfer]

Linda,

>> When you diff, what kind of changes are in the file?

i will take a closer look next time this happens.

>> Is there some process that's changing them?

nope. these are simple cpp sources.

>> Regarding a list of renegade files, I've logged feature request 14660 for this functionality in Visual Studio Enhanced

thank you.

WM_CHEERS
-thomas

[lbauer]

You're welcome.