Communication is a better alternative than reserved locks since it still allows
concurrent development. "cvs edit" helps with communication (if watches are
turned on). Upon "cvs edit", CVS will notify anyone watching (eg anyone who has
done "cvs edit" or "cvs watch add") the file.
If you need earlier notification (ie abort the "cvs edit" if someone is already
editing the file), you can install the "cvs edit -c" patch. This patch is
available on SourceForge under the project RCVS. Please be sure to take a look
at all the patches as the first one has some bugs.
I'll also be submitting several other patches (shouldn't affect "cvs edit -c"
but may be interested to those using "cvs edit") by the end of the week.
Noel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/30/2000 02:50:18 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: (bcc: Noel L Yap)
Subject: Exclusive Edits
(I tried posting this Thursday of last week, but I never saw my post
appear on the eGroups web site, so I'm posting again here, sorry
if it appears to be a double post...)
I'm trying to figure out how to get exclusive editing to work. I've
looked at the rcslock.pl document to be used in conjunction with cvs
admin -l, but it doesn't seem to be all of the answer.
Can someone tell me step by step how to set up things so that users
of
Win or Mac GUIs will only be able to edit a file if someone else
isn't
already editing it, and will be able to know who is editing the file
if they can't get permission to edit it themselves? Feel free to
point
me to a good web page or book or any other reference.
Thanks!
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