Re: CVS File Locking

[Noel L Yap]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 02/12/2000 05:09:09 PM
>Maintenance - sure it needs locking. In the case when you have to freeze
>code to get it to the proper condition or synchronize (migration) with other
>tools - how do you stop commiting?

You can tell everyone not to commit.  You can lock the filesystem (hopefully you
have your repository on a separate filesystem).  You can manually create lock
files within the modules (I have a rudimentary script if you want it).

> And, you don't want to take the repo
>offline, because it hurts the development.

I think "cvs -n" ignores locks.  So, if you're using the module-locking script,
those who wish to continue development can use "cvs -n command".

Noel