[cvsnt] How can I unedit files of other person

Bo Berglund bo.berglund at telia.com
Fri Feb 6 19:39:17 GMT 2004


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On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 15:33:13 -0200, "Fabiano Marinho Carneiro da Cunha"
<fmccunha at choice.com.br> wrote:

>Hi,
>At my project, there are files edited by a person that do not
>work here anymore.
>How can I unedit these files to make possible other people work on it?
>Fabiano.

Brute force method (only as a last resort, when a guy left):
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Go to the server repository and look at the folder where the file is
located. You will find a subdirectory there called CVS (surprise!).
Inside there is a file called 'fileattr'
This file lists all files that have reserved edits set on them.
Find your file name and delete the line. It will remove the reserved
edit state of that file.

In fact by removing the file altogether you will remove all reserved
edits that may have been made on files in that folder...


/Bo
(Bo Berglund, developer in Sweden)



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