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Checkouts Before you actually make any changes, it is important to get acquainted with how to check out files in BitKeeper.
Cleaning a directory
Notice the directory is populated with files. Now do:
Notice that the files are now gone. The SCCS directory is where the revision histories for the files in the directory reside. On Windows the SCCS directory is hidden by default.
Checking out
To check out (or get) the files in read-only mode do:
Notice that the directory is now populated. Now check out the files in read/write mode:
Notice that the files are now read/write capable and thus can be modified. To put the repository back in its original state, do:
Checkout Modes
By default, BitKeeper operates in a "clean" checkout mode such that all files must be explicitly checked out. It can also run in other checkout modes: get mode and edit mode. The repositories you have cloned for this demo run in checkout:get mode and consequently all files in the repository are checked out in read-only mode. If you run in checkout:edit mode, all files in the repository are checked out and can be modified.
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