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Re: How to see in which branch a file is edited?

--- In cvsgui@yahoogroups.com, Gerhard <gelists@...> wrote:
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> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:41:30 -0000, you wrote:
>
> >> >Is there a way to figure out on what branch that file is marked for
> >> >edit? So that we can check it out again, an release the edit lock.
> >>
> >> You don't have to do this; a repo admin can unedit any file
> >> http://www.cvsnt.org/manual/html/unedit.html
> >>
> >
> >Is it possible to do this using the WinCVS GUI, or is this command
> >line only?
>
> AFAIK this is command line only. You can use WinCvs to create and
> execute a cvs command line, though.

That won't be a problem. I was just checking if that action might have
been hidden somewhere in the UI.
Thanks for the input.

Wed Nov 12, 2008 1:13 pm

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Let's say a programmer has been a bit careless and locked a file for reserved edit in a branch, and didn't release that lock after being finished committing...	n3wjack	Nov 7, 2008 9:57 am
... You don't have to do this; a repo admin can unedit any file http://www.cvsnt.org/manual/html/unedit.html Gerhard...	Gerhard gerhardfie	Nov 8, 2008 9:21 am
... Is it possible to do this using the WinCVS GUI, or is this command line only? I'm seeing an "unlock revision" admin option in the history display, but then...	n3wjack	Nov 12, 2008 8:50 am
... There's an "Unedit" button in the toolbar that operates on the current selection of the file browser window... HTH </jum>...	Jens Miltner jmiltner	Nov 12, 2008 9:56 am
... Yes, but that's only for unediting files you're editing yourself. Not for another revision of the files edited somewhere in an unknown branch. I do know...	n3wjack	Nov 12, 2008 1:12 pm
... AFAIK this is command line only. You can use WinCvs to create and execute a cvs command line, though. ... The admin command option "unlock revision" is...	Gerhard gerhardfie	Nov 12, 2008 11:12 am
... That won't be a problem. I was just checking if that action might have been hidden somewhere in the UI. Thanks for the input....	n3wjack	Nov 12, 2008 1:13 pm
... Sorry - I'm not using edit / unedit on a regular basis, since we're doing all our work concurrently here without exclusive checkouts, so I didn't realize...	Jens Miltner jmiltner	Nov 12, 2008 2:11 pm
... If you would run into this kind of issue a lot that would be handy, but this only occurs occasionally so it's not worth the effort imo to write a macro for...	n3wjack	Nov 12, 2008 2:39 pm
... This command has to be issued by a repo admin; it doesn't work if a normal repo user runs it. So unless you're all repo admins, you'd have to bother him...	Gerhard gerhardfie	Nov 13, 2008 2:44 pm

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