>Lo, on Wednesday, January 24, David L. Martin did write:
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Richard Cobbe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >
>> > What's the CVSREAD variable for?
>> >
>> > I know what it does, but I was (and remain) hard-pressed to come up with a
>> > situation in which this behavior would be useful. I'm assuming that such
>> > situations exist; could someone provide an example?
>>
>> This is typically used when you want to loosely enforce the rule
>> that developers should do a cvs edit prior to actually working on
>> a file. Cvs edit makes a read-only file writable in addition to
>> registering the developer to be an editor of the file.
>
><SNIP>
>
>Sounds reasonable enough. But, rather than checking out *every* file
>read-only, why not use `cvs watch on'? According to section 10.6.1 of the
>Cederqvist (node `Setting a watch'), applying this command to specific
>files will cause those files (and no others) to be checked out read-only,
>requiring a `cvs edit' to make them read-write.
Assuming that you want to have watch on all files, then maybe CVSREAD
is a little less baroque. But maybe not ;-)
Your comment also sort of implies that all projects are as organized
as yours, which isn't always the case. CVSREAD as a default makes a
lot of sense here to provide a basic setup that is easy to configure.
>Is CVSREAD perhaps a holdover from an earlier version of CVS that didn't
>support watches?
I believe so.
I actually have had a very odd use for it. Some VCS integration
systems (e.g. CodeWarrior) require a "checked in" state and read-only
is a very useful way to fake this so that CVS can be shoehorned into
such systems. By setting the CVSREAD environment variable, I can
make the files have the kinds of state that the IDE requires without
mucking up the watchers state.
- rmgw
http://www.electricfish.com/hawkfish/
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