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Hi,

We are facing an issue after integrating VSS and Eclipse with force.com IDE. When two different users check out a file(S-Control, Trigger…) from VSS to Eclipse working folder and after performing the changes try to check-in the file back from Eclipse working folder to VSS the eclipse gets hanged and the file doesn’t get checked-in.

Problem Description

Suppose there are two users- User A and User B.
These two users try to update two different files say - User A Check Outs Trigger A and User B check out Trigger B ,which are both under a common folder called unpackaged in VSSto their corresponding working folder in Eclipse.

There is package.xml file for each force.com related folder in VSS.This file also gets checked out whenever we check out any file under the folder. It will be checked out in any user name depending on who-ever checked out a file first from VSS.

Now when both the user try checking in the Trigger A and Trigger B file back from Eclipse working folder to VSS the eclipse gets hanged and doesn’t allow to check-in because of this package.xml file being checked out.

The users have to close all applications and then do changes one by one to solve this problem.


Is there any way that this problem can be avoided?


Thanks
Priya

Hi Priya,

You may try setting the VSS Database including the folder to allow multiple checkouts.

For information on how to do it, you can take a look at this article:
http://www.kevingao.net/sourcesafe/lock ... merge.html

Thanks.

Hello Catherine,

Thanks a lot for your response.
I would like to know one more thing. Using multiple check-outs is a good option since VSS will merge the contents together before checking-in but what if two user modify the same section of a file. In that case the contents of that section will be overwritten right?

Please suggest.

Thanks
Priya Nair

Hi Priya,

If they modify the same section, you can use visual merge to merge the two changes.

For information on merge, please see: http://www.kevingao.net/sourcesafe/file-merge.html

Thanks.

Hello Catherine,

Thanks a lot for the help.

Regards
Priya

You are welcome