How to: Enforce get latest before check-in?
One of our customers had this problem: developers on his team forget to get latest before check-in and they end up with many conflicts and sometimes they overwrite each others’ changes by mistake. One solution is to enforce a custom check-in policy:
Follow the steps in this walkthrough to create a custom check-in policy and change the following in the policy class:
public override PolicyFailure[] Evaluate()
{
return PendingCheckin.PendingChanges.Workspace.Get(VersionSpec.Latest, GetOptions.Preview).NumOperations == 0
? new PolicyFailure[]{ }
: new PolicyFailure[]{ new PolicyFailure("Sync first!", this) };
}