Finding and Breaking Locks on Items with Differences

If an item with differences is locked by another user in the target view for the merge, you will be unable to commit changes for that item in the View Compare/Merge session unless you break the lock. When you start a View Compare/Merge session, the View Compare/Merge Wizard can find the locks and break them automatically if you check that option in the wizard. However, you can also break the locks manually in the session.

CAUTION:

Items are typically locked with exclusive locks because they are being edited. If you break another user's lock, you may cause that user to lose work. You should break another user's locks only after contacting them and in urgent cases where they cannot be contacted.