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

Jens Miltner <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:11:22 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.cvs.gui.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Am 12.11.2008 um 14:12 schrieb n3wjack:

> --- In [email protected], Jens Miltner <jum@...> wrote:
> >
> > There's an "Unedit" button in the toolbar that operates on the  
> current
> > selection of the file browser window...
>
> 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 how to unedit in regular situations. :)


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 this won't do the force unedit :(


Am 12.11.2008 um 14:13 schrieb n3wjack:

> --- In [email protected], Gerhard <gelists@...> wrote:
> >
> > 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.

If going through the "Command Line..." dialog is a little too tedious  
and you have to do this more often, you could always write a macro (in  
Tcl or Python) that performs the command.



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