Making a copy of a completed project

[procreator]

Please bear with my ignorance, but I am a bit of a newbie at source control.

Suppose I have a complete VB 2008 project in Vault. I am about to start a new project, but would like to use the completed project ("Project X") as a starting point. I would like to make a copy of it and rename it to "Project Y". I would like to make changes to Project Y and not have them reflected in Project X.

Can I do this in Vault? If so, how?

Note: I can do it in VSS 6, but it is kind of a kludgey process.

Thanks!

[Beth]

There's two routes you could take.

One would be to use the Vault GUI client to create a branch of the folder holding the project. This starts a separate project in a different location, but it starts with the code you branched. After it's branched, you would go to VS 2008, and choose which client to bind it to in VS Tools - Options - Source Control. If you chose the Classic Client, you would go to File - Source Control - Open from Source Control to open the new copy to disk, and choose a different location to open it to. If you chose the Enhanced Client, you would go to File - Vault Source Control - Open from Vault.

The other option is to make a copy of the entire project on disk. Then open the copy, remove all the source control bindings, and then add it to Vault as it's own separate project.