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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook
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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

by Tarun Arora
January 2016
Intermediate to advanced
340 pages
7h 53m
English
Packt Publishing
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Unlocking files checked out by someone else

In distributed Teams, developers often have pending changes that overlap shared code files. Don't you hate it when a developer takes a day off with files exclusively checked out to them or when a developer leaves an organization with files still checked out? When a file is exclusively locked, no check-in can be performed on the file until the lock is removed. In this recipe, you'll learn how to unlock files checked out by other users.

Getting ready

To undo the pending changes in another user's workspace, you must have the Administer workspaces permission set to Allow:

Getting ready

How to do it...

  1. Developer A has checked ...
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ISBN: 9781784391058