[Ignore.conf not working]

Aha! I see now that in Workspace mode, "Delete" has a "do not delete from disk" option. 

This is a bit confusing. Perhaps it would be clearer if it was called "delete from repository" instead?

Thanks for your help!

-Donald 

[Ignore.conf not working]

Hi,

If I see a file in "Pending Changes" in Plastic SCM and add it to ignore.conf, I should expect it to disappear from "Pending Changes", correct?

I think it's partially working because if I select a filetype that I've already added to ignore.conf, "ignore" is grayed out in the right click menu and when I go to the Workspace view, those files and folders show as "ignored".

-Donald Newlands

 

[New Workspace Function in Gluon Picks a Random Repository]

If I make a new workspace in Gluon, and start typing the name of a new repository in the repository field, all of the other fields are automatically filled in as if it's going to create the repository and the workspace in the right location on disk.  But if you hit OK without first hitting "new" and filling in the name of the repository again... Gluon will assign a repository at random to the new workspace.  It's really messed up and easy to repeat.  

There should be a checkbox instead of a "new" button for creating new repositories through the "New Workspace" dialog, or "New Repository" should be a separate menu item.

-Donald

[Files will not unlock]

Apparently the files we couldn't check in had "private" sidecar files with them that were left over from a previous iteration of the workspace.  Our workspaces frequently disappear from Gluon and we have to re-create them.  We always delete the .plastic file from the root folder but it seems we also need to delete the .private(?) files as well. 

I was able to fix things by temporarily renaming the files, deleting the .private files in Explorer and then using the "delete" function in Gluon with the "do not delete files on disk" option.  Then we renamed the files back to the original name and refreshed and the files showed up to be added normally.

-Donald

[Files will not unlock]

Hi,

I have two files that inexplicably are "Locked by 'donald" when I try to do a checkin in Gluon.  When I run the command line cm unlock <guid>, there is no error but the files stay locked.  The files show up in the lock list under the repository, but if I do cm hist <guid>, cm says the files are not in my workspace?  

I am an administrator... what else can I do?

A few comments:

1. I really wish there was a GUI for this.  Copying and pasting GUIDs seems like a waste of time.  
2. It would be really helpful if the Gluon workspace list could display guids - it would take some of the work out of finding them
3. the cm utility should have a "verbose" mode.  I can't tell when I run "cm lock <guid>" if the command has completed successfully or not.  (If I enter a non-existant GUI the command still completes with no message as if it did something

-Donald

[Can we preserve the file system date?]

Hi, 

Is there a way that we can preserve the original file system date on files, not the date the files were updated?

Thanks!

-Donald Newlands

 

[Auto Pull]

Hi, 

We need to keep a file server folder updated with the latest files in our repository.  Is there a way to set up the Plastic server to automatically pull files as they are committed?

We'd like to use Plastic for an animation project where we'll use Plastic Gluon at remote workstations but files on our central file server need to be continuously updated where they can be accessed by rendering nodes and by backup file servers.  We could use a Plastic client at the server location and create a workspace on the file server, but we'd rather have it run automatically.  

-Donald  

[Can't get rid of a pending merge link]

I'm having a similar issue:

In UE 4.19 I committed changes but got an general error, went to Plastic SCM to checkin and was told that a merge was needed (on files that I had not checked out and were not in the pending changes list).  I set merge to revert to source on all the proposed merge files and was left with a "pending merge link" in Pending Changes.  It says that the pending merge links will be commited when I checkin my changes or undo my changes.  However, when I try to checkin, I get an error that I cannot checkin due to the pending merge link and I don't want to undo - I'll lose 4 hours of work! 

I'm going to copy the files out of the project and try undoing.  This is incredibly frustrating.

-Donald