Pinning/sharing behaviour

GregM · Post by **GregM** » Thu Sep 16, 2004 3:01 pm

jclausius wrote:Has the label been modified through promotion? A modified label does not represent any known version of a folder found in any historical tree, and cannot be branched.

Ouch, that's a pretty serious restriction. Any plans to fix this any time soon?

Post by **jclausius** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 8:55 am

Christian wrote:Blast, you're right, I've used label promotion to tweak the composition of the label. Now that's a real dissapointment. Can you see what I was trying to do?...

Label once sufficently happy that the latest version can be released;
Maybe tweak the composition of this label for a few last minute bugs;
Release (knowing that we can go back to the label at any time);
Carry on working on new features on the mainline;
Spin off a branch from the label when the need arises to create a hot fix.

Yes. As previously mentioned, branching only works on "known" versions of folders. So when a label is modified, it no longer represents any known version of a folder. It is really an entirely new folder.

However, I can see where it would be useful to create a new "branch" on this modified label. I'll log a customer feature request to create a new folder structure (recursively), and branch each file of the label into the folder structure.

Christian wrote:Any thoughts on what's going wrong.

Did you catch my follow up post. There was a problem discovered in one of the later Vault 2.0.x releases from branching anything from history. The problem will be fixed in Vault 2.1.

Post by **jclausius** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 8:56 am

GregM wrote:Ouch, that's a pretty serious restriction. Any plans to fix this any time soon?

I've added your endorsement to this customer based feature request.

GregM · Post by **GregM** » Fri Sep 17, 2004 10:31 am

jclausius wrote:I've added your endorsement to this customer based feature request.

Great, thanks. His description is exactly how we have done releases in the past.

christian · Post by **christian** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 6:42 am

jclausius wrote:However, I can see where it would be useful to create a new "branch" on this modified label. I'll log a customer feature request to create a new folder structure (recursively), and branch each file of the label into the folder structure.

That's brilliant Jeff. I think this would be a real useful feature to have.