[Anthill] VSS Problems in Anthill OS

[Eric Minick]

Dave,

I'm not sure why VSS wouldn't be getting you the revisions you would 
expect. The force build does check for revisions so that it can tell you 
what changed. It should, however, build if there are no revisions to show.

Regards,

Eric

Rooney.Dave wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>I'm an Anthill newbie, and I certainly like what I see.  I'm having a
>bit of trouble, though, getting it to work properly with VSS.
>
>Things work fine except for retrieving the revisions from VSS based on
>the dates of the previous build and the current date.  I took the VSS
>command from the log file and played with it, and there seems to be some
>issues with VSS itself (big surprise).  Basically what happens is that I
>get a 'Version not found' message from VSS, even though changes have
>been made and checked in.
>
>I tried hacking the getRevisionsSince.pgl file, and removed the 'To'
>date from the VSS command, which didn't help.  I was able to get it to
>work by throwing dates a VSS until I hit something that brought back
>results.  I then hacked the main .anthill file for the build, and set
>the date there.  It worked fine, but then crapped out the next time I
>tried a build.
>
>This also happened when I told Anthill to force a build.  My
>interpretation of 'force' is that the build should be performed
>regardless of whether there have been any updates in the repository.  It
>appears that Anthill is still looking for revisions when 'force' is
>selected.
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Dave Rooney
>Mayford Technologies
>http://www.mayford.ca
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