Question

I have a project under my management.

It has the following structure:

$/Code/MainSolution
$/Code/Branches

I want to branch the MainSolution in $/Code/Branches

So I do it, (it works perfectly), I set a working folder for that project and do a ‘get latest’.

But when I open that solution in Visual Studio 2005 it identifies every file as new (+ sign in front of the file) and when I commit it it goes to

$/Data/NameOfTheBranch

Why does it do that? Why doesn’t it follow MY rules?

Answer 1

1. Go to File, Source Control, Change
   Source Control (at least on VS2008).

2. Look at the Server Binding column.
   Generally you want the binding to
   point to the solution’s root project
   directory in VSS for the solution
   and all the projects. If not, then:

3. Unbind all the projects and the
   solution.

4. Shift-select the entire list.

5. Bind everything to the solution root.

If you do this before branching and pinning the project, it will be easier. Doing it afterward you will have to branch the .sln file and perhaps the .vcproj and the .vspscc as well for the modifications to be saved correctly.

Here’s a good reference for the files VSS and Visual Studio manage. These files can easily get out-of-whack.

I administered a VSS database for too many years and recently switched to Mercurial and haven’t looked back. Branching and merging in VSS is horrible.