Moving Files after already having setup files/projects

[ellington]

After setting up a project and subproject structure in VSS I identified a more logical orginaztion of some of my support files of a particular subproject in my VSS database. This mainly was a result of finding a better way to retreive the files from the VSS database in to corresponding work folders in my local work environment that would better suit my local work environment compile/build tools.

My question is I would simply like to move a file from an existing subproject to a different subproject. I no longer want it to exist where it previously was located. When I just did a drag and drop of course it shared the file and created a branch. I then deleted the file in the original subproject but my new subproject still shows this as a branched version which isn't really what I wanted.

I suppose the correct thing to do would have been to add a completely new copy into the new suproject and then remove the original copy from the original subproject...but too late for that now.

Anyway, does anyone have suggestions on this? I would think these general project/subproject structure changes would be quite common when first setting a project up in VSS.

 

[SrkrReds]

You can highlight the files you want to move, on the menu bar select File->Move. Another screen opens to select the destination directory. Select the destination project/subproject and click OK. This action will delete the file in the source project and add the file to the destination project.(This only works if you have delete privs in source directory and Add privs in the destination directory). This will not share/branch. It actually moves the file.

HTH