mass GET from History Explorer ?

philo_t · Post by **philo_t** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 9:46 am

Is there any way to select and GET multiple files from the History Explorer?

It appears that individual files can be selected and GET, but when multiple files are selected, GET is disabled.

Here's the scenario I encounter this in:
We are supposed to mark our checkins with a comment indicating the change # .
To pull in the versions of files for a specific change, I do a history query by comment and specify the change # to locate.
The History Explorer then shows all the files checked in with that comment.
At that point, I would like to GET all the file versions listed in the History Explorer.

In fact, it appears that all operations are disabled in the History Explorer once more than two files are selected. That means that I can't label the file versions listed in the History Explorer and then get by label either.

(Vault 3.5.2 (5087))

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:16 pm

You can get the entire folder contents at a specific version (which is a change set or checkin) by using Show History and selecting View Folder History by Version.

Another option is to save your query results when you query by comment. You can save the query results as a .txt or .csv file then parse out the results to use in a Get Version command for the Vault Command Line Client:

http://download.sourcegear.com/misc/vau ... GETVERSION

The command line client is in the Vault GUI Client directory and is called vault.exe. For documentation, see online help at the link above, or type vault.exe helphtml from a command prompt.