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How can shelving support working from Desktop and Laptop?

Here's the scenario, I do a bunch of work on my desktop during the day, resulting in numerous files being checked-out on my desktop. At the end of the day I'm not ready to check-in but I would like to continue my work from my laptop in the evening. My understanding was that I would shelve my pending changes from my desktop computer, then Unshelve from the laptop.

I tried this and got a bunch of errors during unshelve: "The item $/.... is locked for check-out by WESTEEL0\smithd in workspace SMITHD" the workspace SMITHD is my desktop computer workspace. Before doing the unshelve the laptop has no files checked out and no pending changes (I just did an Open From Source Control... to get the latest copy of the source, so I know it's up to date).

Why am I getting this error, and whats the proper way to support this scenario?

Optikal

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Anybody know how this is supposed to work? I can't even share files with other people, which I thought was one of the main reasons behind shelving. If somebody else shelves their code, it won't let me unshelve it because it says they have it checked out still...

Optikal

It sounds like you're working in exclusive checkout mode?

If this is the case, you'll need to undo the checkout on your desktop machine before you can unshelve on your laptop (which will check out this files on your laptop).

The easiest way to do this is when you create your shelveset, clear the check box that says "preserve pending changes locally" which will undo your checkout after the shelveset is created.

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John Lawrence MSFT

John Lawrence MSFT wrote:

It sounds like you're working in exclusive checkout mode?

If this is the case, you'll need to undo the checkout on your desktop machine before you can unshelve on your laptop (which will check out this files on your laptop).

The easiest way to do this is when you create your shelveset, clear the check box that says "preserve pending changes locally" which will undo your checkout after the shelveset is created.

What about the scenario where I want to look at another developers code that is in-progress? Lets say for a code review. I don't want them to undo their check-out, because they are still working on it, I just want to grab a copy of what they have so far. Is this supported?

Optikal

In order for you to be able to unshelve your pending changes into your laptop's workspace, you'll either have to remove the exclusive lock setting from the Team Project, or you'll need to remove the pending changes from your workspace, as John described.

Only one workspace can lock an item at any given time. When the exclusive checkout mode is enabled for a Team Project, every pending change must take a checkout lock. If you have the files locked in your desktop's workspace, you can't unshelve them in your laptop's workspace (otherwise, we'd break the exclusive checkout guarantee). For this reason, shelving and having the exlusive lock setting enabled do not mix well.

Buck

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I have opened a MS Connect issue at https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=212136

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