Re: VC barfs on reversion if locked

[Andre Spiegel]

On Wed, 2002-12-18 at 13:09, Marshall, Simon wrote:

> You want to make a quick modification but don't want the lock, so you
> mouse-3 in the modeline to make it not read-only.
> After you have finished, try to C-x v u to revert to the version in RCS.
> Say yes to discard your changes.
> VC barfs and pops up a window:
> 
> RCS/carval.cpp,v  -->  carval.cpp
> co: RCS/carval.cpp,v: revision 2.16 locked by muffettm; use co -r or rcs
> -u
> 
> and the checkout fails.
> 
> It should checkout the file.  Thanks, Simon.

Thanks, Simon, you're invaluable for finding these somewhat
less-than-common problems!  I'll make sure to have it fixed along with
the bunch of other pending issues.  You'll get a patch.