Canceling a checkout
If you decide not to keep your changes, you can cancel a checkout.
About this task
If you decide that you checked out a file in error, or you do not want to keep the changes you made to a file, you can cancel the checkout instead of checking in the file. In this topic, you will return the notes.txt file to a read-only state by canceling the checkout.
To cancel a checkout:
Procedure
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Connect to the CCRC WAN
server, if you are not connected
already.
Expand the My Views node in the ClearTeam Navigator, right-click on the view called yourname_tut_view and click Connect. In the WAN dialog box, fill in the connection details, and click OK.Note: You can also select the view and click the
(Connect to ClearCase®
Server) button in the toolbar or you can select from the ClearCase® menu. In addition, if you are not connected to a ClearCase® server and you perform an action that requires
such a connection, the WAN dialog box appears automatically. -
In the ClearTeam
Details view, select the
notes.txt file and click the
(Undo the checkout for
the selected artifact(s)) button on the toolbar.
Note: You can also right-click the file and select Undo Checkout or you can select from the ClearCase menu. - In the Undo Checkout dialog box, clear the Keep a copy of modified artifacts check box and click OK.