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Overriding server options for specific mainline branches

You can override general, changelist, and filename and extension server options for specific mainline branches. If you do not configure options for a specific mainline, the mainline options set on the Surround SCM Server are used. See Configuring the Surround SCM Server.

1. Select the mainline branch and choose Branch > Branch Properties.

The Properties dialog box opens.

2. Click the Options tab.

3. Select a category.

• General—Includes options for allowing checking in without check out, allowing multiple users to check out files, expanding keywords, allowing workflow state changes during check in, setting minimum comment lengths, Unicode options for merging text files, enabling thumbnails, and setting the maximum file size for large files. See Setting general mainline options.
• Changelists—Includes options for changelist usage and retaining historical changelist information. See Setting changelist server options.
• Files Names/Extensions—Includes options to set file type extensions and names to automatically detect and ignore when adding files. See Setting auto-detect and ignore file options.

4. Select Override for the options you want to override and make any changes.

Select Inherit to use the mainline options set on the Surround SCM Server.

5. Click OK to save the changes.