Re: locked files, how to handle

[Larry Jones]

Georg Wilckens writes:
> 
> we have a project with quite a few people working on a
> project. Sometimes files remain locked in CVS, because someone forgot
> to remove the lock. Unfortunately the guilty is sometimes
> unreachable. Is there an easy way to remove the lock? Or do I have to
> edit the RCS-file and remove the lock there by hand?

As others have said, the right solution is to quit locking files, but
you can break someone else's lock with "cvs admin -u", you just have to
specify the revision to unlock explicitly.

-Larry Jones

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