BUG: Checkins require CheckinOther permission

Question

When checking in from the Eaglestone client in Eclipse, the user gets an error that the CheckinOther permission is required.  All other clients don't require this permission, and it is naturally not enabled by default for the Contributors group.

Is there a reason for this?  Any workarounds besides granting this permission to the group?

Answer 1

This is indeed a bug in our beta release, and it will be fixed for RTM.  Unfortunately there's no good work-around except to enable CheckinOther permissions for your user.

The underlying cause is a date value sent to TFS at check-in time.  Changes in TFS 2010 require the user to have CheckinOther permissions if the date sent with the changeset is past the year 1850, and the TEE beta release always sends the current date.

Answer 2

Just to loop back - this was indeed fixed in the RTM release of Team Explorer Everywhere available here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=af1f5168-c0f7-47c6-be7a-2a83a6c02e57

Thanks again for feedback.

Martin.

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