Seems like you want some sort of client-server RCS (does such an animal even exist?)
or plain RCS over NFS.
-- Matthew Brown
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Leibig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 11:33 AM
Subject: RCS style locking
> Well, I've tried as hard as I can, but I can't convice our developers that
> RCS locking is not necessary when using CVS. They're all old school, and
> they don't trust CVS's ability to merge, nor do they claim they need it.
> THey do however want the whole remote repository ability, which means I'm
> in a hard spot. I need to figure out how to provide locking (every file
> gets locked everytime it is checked out and unlocked everytime it is
> commited.) Using CVS, or to provide a remote repository system using RCS.
> Actually the developers even want to have a copy of the checked out source
> all running in one directory on one of the UNIX servers. When they check
> out they want the file's permissions in that directory to change so they
> can access it untill the check it back in, then they want it to go to read
> only for everyone. I'm not sure how possable any of this is. It seems
> like what we really need is a client/server version of RCS. Anyone have
> any advice, if nothing else can someone tell me how to do the locking. I
> know this has come up before, but I don't really understand how the RCS
> lock works, nor if it still works with CVS 1.10.8.
>
>
> Thanks in advance for the help,
> Ben Leibig
> Systems Admin Consultant
> mamamedia.com
>
>
