Ability to mark line of code as "do not check in/debug only"

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Hi,

I wish there was a way to mark lines of code as “do not check in”, so that I don’t miss the change and revert it during checkin. For small checkins, this isn’t a problem, but really large ones, it’s easy to miss a change that I made purely to force some value so I could test my new feature. This value would always be set when playing the game normally, but jumping directly into a scene might not work - so that’s why I have this theoretical change.

It would just be nifty if there could be some coded comment that Plastic sees and throws a warning, and denies the checkin until we remove that coded comment, or undo the change. It could even be as simple as:

//DO_NOT_CHECK_IN
... some code here
... some code there

… where it just points us to the line of code with the comment, and tells us to resolve whatever we did there. We could add an explanation after DO_NOT_CHECK_IN to remind ourselves etc.

I could probably make a feature for this. Just wanted to see if it could be part of PlasticSCM.

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Hi @tsibiski

If you would like to ignore checkin for a specific file, you can use ignore.conf. However, blocking only part of the code line might not be available for the current version of UVCS(Plastic SCM).

However, you can try to use a trigger (Triggers guide · Plastic SCM version control) and evaluate your own checkin with your own script.