uncheckout

You can cancel another dynamic view's checkout by using a view-extended pathname to the element. For a snapshot view or when a dynamic view is no longer accessible (for example, it was deleted accidentally), a view-extended pathname does not work. Instead, do the following:

1. Enter the command describe –long vob:pname-in-vob, where pname-in-vob is the VOB tag of the VOB that contains the checked-out file. The output of this command includes a list of views with checkouts in the VOB.
2. Look for the view-storage pathname of the inaccessible view, and note the view's unique identifier (UUID).
3. Use the UUID in the command rmview –uuid uuid to remove all of the view's checkout records from the VOB.
4. Repeat Step 3 for each VOB that may have been accessed with the view.

You can also change reserved checkouts in that view to unreserved.

If you cancel a directory's checkout after changing its contents, the changes made with rmname, mv, and ln are lost. Any new elements that were created (with mkelem or mkdir) become orphaned; such elements are moved to the VOB's lost+found directory, stored under names of this form:

element-name.UUID

uncheckout displays a message in such cases:

Default

For file elements only, uncheckout prompts you to specify whether to preserve a copy of the checked-out version of the element:

Save private copy of "util.c"? [yes]

A yes answer is equivalent to specifying the –keep option; a no answer is equivalent to specifying the –rm option.

–kee/p

Preserves the contents of the checked-out version under a file-name of the form element-name.keep (or, to prevent name collisions, element-name.keep.1, element-name.keep.2, and so on).

–rm

Does not preserve the contents of the checked-out version. Thus, any edits that had been made to the checked-out version are lost.

–cact

Cancels the checkout for each checked out version in the current activity.

Default

None.

–nsrfm

Cancels a checkout of a remotely mastered branch that was performed synchronously with a request for mastership (SRFM) of that branch. This option unsets the pending reserved state of the checkout that was set when the command checkout –srfm was issued.

Default

None.

pname ...

One or more pathnames, each of which specifies an element. The checkout in the current view is canceled, unless you use a view-extended pathname to specify another view.

Note: Avoid using a version-extended pathname. For example, you cannot use hello.c@@\main\sub1 to cancel another view's checkout on the sub1 branch of element hello.c.