What files should not be checked into Source Control?

[AIR-Chayah]

Good afternoon.

Running RoboHelp 11, integrated with Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio 2010.

When my two colleagues recently "got" the latest project files from Source Control, they also got items that had been removed or deleted. For example, I had removed all conditional build tags from my project, but their version still included the build tags. Eventually, thanks in part to an old post from Peter Grainge, we realized that the PSS in Source Control contained a lot of that old information. We deleted the PSS and stopped checking it into Source Control. Problem solved. No more conditional build tags or unwanted Single Source Layouts, etc. (I think the PSS got checked in by our Release Engineer when he was trying to solve some other problem. Two years ago it was not being checked in.)

I vaguely remember reading something somewhere once upon a time about not checking certain RoboHelp  project management files into Source Control. So far I've not found any such information in the RoboHelp Help or online.

Does anyone know where I can find a list of RoboHelp HTML project management files, such as the PSS file, that should never be checked into Source Control?

Many thanks.

Carol Levine

[Peter Grainge · Accepted solution]

Look in Snippets on my site.

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See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

@petergrainge

[AIR-Chayah]

Thanks so much, Peter.

I also found the item about working as a team in Source Control really helpful and timely, too, because the team is meeting with the Release Engineer tomorrow to talk about the collaboration process.

Regards,

Carol