Re: RoboHelp and VSS

[Avery Krycek <askrycek -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Thank you very much to all who responded. I appreciate the input.

Avery

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Combs, Richard
<richard -dot- combs -at- polycom -dot- com>wrote:

> Will Husa clarified:
>
> > The developers and the programmers wanted individual files in the
> Source
> > Safe, so zipping would not have been permitted. Eventually, I
> convinced
> > them
> > to let me check out the entire RoboHelp project at once, so that no
> matter
> > what changed, I could check it all back in without an issue.
>
> Ahh, so VSS _didn't_ make you "check out EACH file, work on it and then
> check EACH file back in" -- the developers did. Maybe they were just
> jerking you around. Or there was some kind of failure to communicate.
> :-}
>
> Richard
>
>
> Richard G. Combs
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