To check out hijacked files now
About this task
If you do not convert
the hijacked files to checkouts now, you may lose the opportunity to automatically
merge the changes in those files. When you load a file into your view, the
version of the element that is copied into your view is recorded. A warning
is displayed after the following sequence of events:
- You hijack a file.
- You update your view, and the following occurs:
- The view config spec selects a different version of the file you hijacked.
- The Update Tool update options are set to leave hijacked files in place.
- Because of the options that you specified in the Update Tool, the version that the config spec selects is not copied into your view. (The version that the config spec selects is recorded.)
- Because the version that you originally hijacked is no longer recorded, you cannot check out the hijacked file.
Take the following actions: