Yeah, I don't get why the Unlock WinCVS command doesn't unlock the
latest version's lock. What else would you be trying to unlock? (Maybe
there's a way that I don't understand?)
Anyway, you can unlock the file in question by choosing from the
"Admin" menu "Command Line". In the command line section, you can type
(!) the following:
cvs admin -u1.8 index.html
[assuming here version 1.8 of the file index.html; note the lack of a
space between the u and 1.8 is not a mistake]
You also need to check "Click to specify in which local directory the
cmmand applies" and then click "Change folder" to browse to you local
filesystem that has your copy fo the file in question.
There must be a better way!
- Stefan
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Veronica Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As many of you may have learned, WinCVS (I use 1.1.b12) provides a
> locking mechanism for a user to lock a module or a file.
>
> However, the lock does not prevent the user from starting an editing
> session, modifying or updating a file. The impact is that once a
user
> have modified a file, he cannot unlock it even if he is the one who
> locked the file.
>
> I have tried unediting the file to revert the change before I tried
> unlocking the file, but it didn't work either. I'd appreciate it if
> anyone would offer any solution to the problem.
>
> Here is a sample of error messages I got from WinCVS when trying to
> unlock hello.c:
>
> cvs server: /usr/local/cvsroot/myproj4/hello.c,v: multiple revisions
> locked by veronica; please specify one
> cvs server: cannot modify RCS file for `hello.c'
>
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