CVS style -- A few suggestions to make it easier...

[kfinke@creditinfonet.com]

While I've been using Vault for some time now, I just recently switched to CVS style. I found myself not checking out files, but rather letting them renegade and then I would check out/merge if needed, then check back in. When I realized this was pretty much the CVS development style, I changed the option.

However, doing it the old way, I could perform the actions I needed from the Status Search panel. Now, the "Edited" view does not allow me to select files and Commit them. I need to do that from the pending change set.

That by itself would be fine I guess, but the Pending Change Set window has a few things I don't like. First, it's hard to see the (useful) columns of info to the right as the full paths to my working folders are quite deep, and therefore they take up so much horizontal space. Could you show the end of the file in question rather than the beginning in the space allocated to the filename, with perhaps a tooltip showing the full path when you hover over it?

Next, we have our .vbproj files and a few other studio files checked into Vault. It's nice for folks that may be opening a new project for the first time. However, while we're working on the projects concurrently, we typically just all keep our own local copy of these project level files. Well, since they are edited they all show up in the Pending Change Set as Needs Merge. Could we add the ability to cloak files individually? Or perhaps by filetype?

I'm open to any suggestions anyone may have regarding my requests. Perhaps there is another way for me to set things up I just haven't thought of yet.

[kfinke@creditinfonet.com]

My post from a few months ago can stand pretty much as it is!

While 3.0 has some great new features, I still have my complaints about committing files.

- I would love to be able to commit from the search window.
- You should be able to search and lock on a folder in the pending change set window.
- You should be able to cloak a file, so we can ignore things like .suo and .xxproj files.

Thanks,

[dan]

Kevin,

Thanks for the feedback - those are all good suggestions.

We do plan to add more functionality to the status search pane, but it will be quite a bit of work, due to the internal design. I can't promise when that will be available, but we've had multiple requests for it.

The cloaking files idea is also good, but again might require some re-design.

One thing that was improved in 3.0 is that when you use the context menu commit or checkin command, it only includes those files or folders that are currently selected. So, you can prune checkins to just those that are within a given folder, or you could sort the pending change set by type, select the files you want and right click to commit just those operations. It isn't exactly what you want, but is a step in that direction.