RE: Disconnected Checkout - Best practices?

I assume you're talking about the Work Offline
feature in Visual Studio.  We don't have any
set of best practices for using this particular
feature.  If you can give us some more specific
information about the problem you're having,
we might able to help.

BTW, the best way to work disconnected is to use our
so-called "CVS Mode".  Unfortunately, this way of
working is supported only in the main Vault client,
not within Visual Studio.

In this "mode", Vault doesn't require files to be
checked out before you edit them.  It automatically
notices your changes and places them in your pending
change set as if you had checked them out.  We
sometimes call this "CVS mode" since it implements
the "edit-merge-commit" model of development which
is similar to the way CVS works.  Anyway, this is
a great way to do development when you're not
connected to the server.

--
Eric Sink
Software Craftsman
http://software.ericsink.com/
 
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Josh Robinson
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 6:35 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [vault-list] Disconnected Checkout - Best practices?

We use Vault 1.2.2 for our small dev team here at work.  It is a huge
improvement from the constant frustrations that we faced with VSS over the
years.  However, I have lately become so frustrated with the Disconnected
Checkout (or Work Offline?) feature as to find it unusable and can no longer
feel confident that any work I perform over the weekend will make it into my
source control at the office.
 
It is likely that I am doing something wrong, so rather than give gory
details about each step that I am doing (which I will gladly do), I would
love for someone (at SourceGear or otherwise) to run through the steps that
are required in a disconnected check-out scenario.  Then, (and this is the
critical part) what are the steps to properly re-connect to the Vault on
Monday morning without losing all your inspired weekend code.  That is the
weak link for me right now, I keep losing everything when I come in on
monday morning.  I hate to say it, but never had trouble with this feature
of VSS, so I'm sure that I'm just doing it wrong with Vault.  Thanks for any
help!
 
Josh