Add a Checkin / Re-Checkout Option
During heavy-duty work on a set of objects, it would be nice to have a button in Pending changes which will Checkin all Pending and automatically re-Checkout the same objects. This will speed up development. Sometimes many disparate objects are being updated and if they reside in different folders, doing interim checkins (for safety's sake) requires going through the folders and checking out those objects one at a time. It would just be better to be able to checkin several objects and have them checked out, again, automatically.
Tom Peters
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Kamil Andrzejewski
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Hi Tom,
If it's generic enough, do you mind sharing the script once its done? I'm hoping to achieve the same thing but I'm not familiar with the trigger system.
Thank you.
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Tom Peters
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Hi Ruben - Thanks for the feedback. As it happens, we use triggers quite extensively. It never dawned on me to look into that. Please leave this open until I get back. I want to make sure we can do this as effectively as you guys would. :-)
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rdealba
commented
Hello Tom,
Nice idea. However, I think you can actually have this behavior in Plastic SCM using the triggers functionality.
http://plasticscm.com/guides/triggers/main.shtml
This way, everytime you perform a checkin operation, the items could be automatically checked out based on certain path or user filters. As you implement your own trigger, you can perfectly define the behavior you need.