Re: [stellation-res] Successful connection

["Jonathan Gossage" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Mark C. Chu-Carroll" <mcc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Stellation-res" <stellation-res@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: [stellation-res] Successful connection


> On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 11:47, Jonathan Gossage wrote:
> > Congratulations. I have successfully connected to the new server and
have
> > been able to checkout a project. However, I now have a question. I would
> > like to undo the checkout without making any changes. Is checkin --force
the
> > way to do this and if so how do you undo a checkout without checking in
> > anything if you have made changes in the local workspace?
>
> What do you mean by "undoing" a checkout?
>
> Checkout creates a local copy of the requested branch version
> on your local disk. That's all: there is no server side effect
> of checking things out.  You can delete the local checked out
> directory without telling the server about it. You can change
> things in it as much as you like, and it will have no effect on
> the server until you specifically tell it to check those changes
> back in.
>

I thought that you would maintain a record of checkouts on the server so
that users would be able to determine which other users were working in an
area of interest among other things. But my real concern was wanting to be
able to revert local changes to the state they had at checkout time. See the
Wiki topic UndoCheckout for details.

Regards

Jonathan