RE: CVS File Locking

[Noel L Yap]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 02/12/2000 05:43:01 PM
>>In my experience the problem is that people want to do their own work as if
>>no one else could lock a file. It is generally not locks that anyone
>>objects
>>to, it is other people's locks. They like to be able to commit changes
>>whenever they are ready.
>
>Exactly. So, how am I going to work when everybody aorund are locking the
>files? I have to do the same - bye bye concurency.

Again, if someone has "cvs edit -c"'d a file that I want to "cvs edit -c" and
I'm told about it, what's the problem?  Are you worried about those that'll "cvs
edit -f" whenever they feel like it?  Maybe those that habitually do this to
non-mergeable files should be fired.

Noel