Auto complete checked-in private changes
Recently I someone asked me what the option "Auto complete checked-in private changes" measns. (Window -> preferences -> Team -> Jazz Source Control -> Check-in policies")
Even after reading the online documentation (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/rtc/v2r0m0/topic/com.ibm.team.scm.doc/topics/t_scm_eclipse_autoci.html) and trying some cases in my RTC, I am not really sure what this does. Any help? Thanks! Jan |
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It means that a new change set will get created and closed during every check in. This simulates how other SCM systems work, where you don't have the flexibility of having active change sets and reorganizing your changes after check in.
In fact, this is the default mode of working in the SCM web interface. The option in the Eclipse client was added 4 years ago, but I've personally never used it. We thought it may help simplify things for new users. If you have feedback on it, I'd love to hear about it. Jean-Michel |
It means that a new change set will get created and closed during every check in. This simulates how other SCM systems work, where you don't have the flexibility of having active change sets and reorganizing your changes after check in. I understand your explanation, but I can't seem to get it to work on my machine. For every check-in I do, I can still choose which change set I want (existing or new) and I am able to move files between them... Does it work for you? Maybe I did something wrong, although configuring it is child's play ;) |
Geoffrey Clemm (30.1k●3●30●35)
| answered Jun 04 '10, 8:54 a.m.
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I see the same behavior as Jan, i.e., setting that property has no
effect that I've been able to discover (I'm using the most recent 3.0 milestone build). In particular, change sets are definitely not automatically closed for me in any scenario I could come up with. I've reported this issue in work item 117071. Cheers, Geoff On 6/4/2010 7:08 AM, JanVdP wrote: jlemieuxwrote: |
I think auto-checkin also has to be on. Although, I don't know if it's supposed to work like that.
I understand your explanation, but I can't seem to get it to work on my machine. For every check-in I do, I can still choose which change set I want (existing or new) and I am able to move files between them... |
Geoffrey Clemm (30.1k●3●30●35)
| answered Jun 04 '10, 10:59 a.m.
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Auto-checkin being on is one of the configurations I tried ... that
doesn't help ... the change-sets are still not being auto-completed. And note that auto-checkin is probably when you *don't* want to have auto-complete on, since you'd end up with a new change-set every time you did a save, which is unlikely to be what you want. Cheers, Geoff On 6/4/2010 9:08 AM, tmok wrote: I think auto-checkin also has to be on. Although, I don't know if it's |
Geoffrey Clemm (30.1k●3●30●35)
| answered Jun 04 '10, 5:06 p.m.
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For folks following this thread, the conclusion reached in work item
117071 is that this option only works if you are working in a private workspace and if you have auto-checkin set. My vote in 117071 is to simply get rid of this preference (with the further speculation that not a single user has this turned on :-). So if there actually is someone out there that actually uses this feature (and would care if we got rid of it :-), please post a comment in 117017. Cheers, Geoff On 6/4/2010 8:54 AM, Geoffrey Clemm wrote: I see the same behavior as Jan, i.e., setting that property has no |
Geoffrey Clemm (30.1k●3●30●35)
| answered Jun 04 '10, 8:15 p.m.
FORUM ADMINISTRATOR / FORUM MODERATOR / JAZZ DEVELOPER
For folks following this thread, the conclusion reached in work item
117071 is that this option only works if you are working in a private workspace and if you have auto-checkin set. My vote in 117071 is to simply get rid of this preference (with the further speculation that not a single user has this turned on :-). So if there actually is someone out there that actually uses this feature (and would care if we got rid of it :-), please post a comment in 117071. Cheers, Geoff On 6/4/2010 8:54 AM, Geoffrey Clemm wrote: I see the same behavior as Jan, i.e., setting that property has no |
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