PRB: Cloaked Projects are Deployed

 Last reviewed: October 28, 1996
Article ID: Q158160
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, 32-bit, for Windows, version 5.0

SYMPTOMS

Cloaking is a new feature in Visual SourceSafe 5.0 that excludes specified subprojects from recursive actions on a higher level project. If the parent project is a WEB project, when the project is DEPLOYed, the cloaking has no effect.

STATUS

This behavior is by design. While cloaking is set by the individual user to determine whether a given subproject will be included in a recursive GET or CHECKOUT for that user only, deploying a project is a "universal" action that affects an entire project, including all its subprojects.

MORE INFORMATION

Deploying a project is, in effect, identical to performing a recursive Get Latest Version. Because the cloaking affects the behavior of the Get, you might expect it to affect the Deploy in the same way.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Create a WEB project (the parent project) that has at least one subproject.

  2. Mark one of the subprojects as Cloaked.

  3. Deploy the parent project. Note that the subproject is also Deployed.

KBCategory: kbprg kbprb
KBSubcategory: ssui ssusage
Additional reference words: 5.00 kbdss



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Last reviewed: October 28, 1996
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