Exclusive Checkout of Project

[tommyg]

We have set up our system to never do exclusive locks, this appears to work fine, and we then just merge the changes as required.

However whenever anything changes on a project, both the Project and Solution files are checked out with an exclusive lock. This thn means no-one else can add anything to the project as it complains that the file is exclusively locked.

We can get around this by either going into the Admin screen and forcing an undo checkout. Or, asking the person to check it in.

Is there any solution to this issue?

Cheers
Tom

[lbauer]

Vault considers certain files to be non-mergeable, and this includes project files. Non-mergeable or binary files are checked out exclusively by default.

If you want to change this behavior, add *.proj to the list of Mergeable Files in the Vault Admin Client. In Vault 4.0 this is under Source Control Repositories->Repository Name->File Types.

If you're using 3.x, it's under Repository Options in the Admin Tool.