Cancel a checkout if it was not needed or to discard your changes.
Before you begin
You must connect to a Rational ClearCase server to cancel a checkout.
About this task
To cancel (undo) checkouts of one or more resources:
- Select the checked-out resources for which you want to cancel the
checkouts. Use the ClearCase Navigator, ClearCase
Details view, ClearCase Search Results view,
or the ClearCase Version Tree view. If you are working
in the Eclipse environment, use any Eclipse view that supports the Team context
menu.
- To open the Undo Checkout dialog
box, click the
icon on the ClearCase toolbar, or take
either of the following actions:- Select Undo Check Out from the context menu
in the ClearCase Navigator.
- In the Eclipse environment, select Undo Check Out from
the Team context menu.
- In the ClearCase Version Tree view, right-click
the checked-out version and select Undo Check Out.
- Select Save a copy of the file with a '.keep' extension to
preserve a view-private copy of the file named filename.keep.
- Click OK.
Results
The checkouts are canceled and the selected versions of the resources
are loaded from the VOB as checked-in (read-only) files. If you selected Keep
a copy modified artifacts, the contents of the checked-out files
are preserved as view-private files with names of the form filename.keep.