VB6 & Source Safe

Question

We have multiple developers working on the same code base. We also are trying to use SourceSafe (6.0)

When one developer makes code changes to their local copy, we note it in a list of changed objects for this release.

When it's time to compile our next release, we open the "master" copy, update all the changes from SourceSafe to the master copy, then compile.

At this point, all the other developers code is now out of sync with the master copy, and we need to get all the changes pushed downhill to all the developers local copies, so we're all looking at the same version of source at the start of a new release cycle.

Is there a way to have SourceSafe update the local copies with the latest changes, or do we need to do it manually basaed on the list of changed objects (which is what we're doing now...) Please don't tell me to use "Get Latest Version". It only works on one file at a time, and is the process we're using now anyway.

Thanks

Answer 1

I believe your process is simply incorrect. When your devs get in, just have everyone Get Latest. When your developers want to make a change, have them check out the file. This way, it's one dev working on a single file at a time.

If you want multiple people working on the same file, I'd switch to subversion (there is a vb plugin for it).

There is a reason why the SCC tools work the way they do - it's been tried and tested over the last 20 years.