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SourceSafe Branch Recursively
Posted by Sameer on September 24, 2007 in Visual SourceSafe | ∞
Did you know there is no way to branch sourcesafe projects recursively? Or so you thought!
Here is a work around:
From Visual SourceSafe Explorer, go to View -> Search -> WildCard Search
Then search for Wildcard: *
(a single asterisk) with "Search in current project and all subprojects" selected.
Then it will give you a list of ALL of your files in that project. Simply highlight them all and click on the Branch button.
The only caveat is that you need to make sure the files are not checked out in that project in order to branch them.
And again,.. I would recommend you ditch SourceSafe and go for something better, like Perforce, Subversion, or Vault
4 Comments
uhhh… I do not agree with the statement that you cannot branch projects recursively. I just did it, without any of the stuff described here.
And how did you do it?
Just drag and drop the folder(s) you want to branch. Check the “recursive” option on the dialog box. That will initially Share the files. Then select the folder(s) you’ve just Shared (in the new destination) and choose “Branch” from the Versions menu.
@Doug: That works only if you wish to share. If you’ve already done a share, and want to perform the branch, or if you only want to branch from a sub-folder of your share, you need the above method.
So you both make valid points. Which method you chose should depend on what you are trying to accomplish.
@Sameer: Thank you for this, I just used it on one of my projects and it worked perfectly.