What files to exclude from Version Control

Report · Apr 03, 2009

Hi,
I previously used CVS with TortoiseCVS for RoboHelp version control, and I remember finding a list of files to exclude, which I gave to the system administrator.

I am at a new company now and they are using Microsoft Visual Studio - Source Control Explorer. I uploaded the whole project, then checked out the whole project, and when I went to check the whole project back in, of course there were dozens and dozens of file changes that I didn't recognize. The admin here said to get him a list of files to exclude or ignore...Now I can't find the article that I used last time with the list of files to exclude. It was either in the RH online help or it was an Adobe article?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Danielle

Report · Apr 17, 2009

There aren't very many files that RoboSource Control excludes. Let's see, a quick tally of my RH6 webhelp project shows the following to be excluded:

projectname.cpd
projectname.pss
projectname.hhp
projectname.trl
ehlpdhtm.js

That's not very many, but the consequences of adding them to RSC are severe--things get very messed up, very fast. That's why I always let RH control the upload into RSC. Not an option if you're not using RSC, I realize.

"Dozens and dozens of file changes" sounds fishy though. You might have something else going on, too.

G.