In article <MoRt7.14391$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, news.pacbell.net wrote: >I am new to CVS and I have the following problems ... > > >- when I change the browse location to the apporporiate directory, it >displayes the directories on the left pane. but it doesn't display any files >on the right. but all the commands like update, checkout work ok. I tried >changing the filters , doesn't help.
Does the file view on the right update when you click on any of the directories in the browser? Is this a problem of the UI not updating when the browse root location is changed, or some other problem? >- is there a document discribing the various display icons like a pencil >icon etc? I've never seen it. The meaning of these icons becomes obvious as you use the program. The pencil means that the file is not write protected. >- How to set the checkout to be reserved checkout always. We are all from >sourcesafe world. If you like how SourceSafe works, then stick with SourceSafe. (Actually VSS supports nonreserved checkouts as well). CVS is the *Concurrent* Version System. It does not support reserved checkouts. Reserved checkouts get in the way of development, because you have to wait for someone to release a lock before you can work on a file. Sometimes people lock files and go for lunch, or even go home. Once you get used to concurrent development, you will never want to use reserved checkouts. CVS has a watch feature whereby you can be notified of people's intentions to edit or commit files. A watched file is checked out read-only; if the programmer is honest, he or she will use the ``cvs edit'' command (available through the WinCVS UI) to state the intention of editing the file, thereby making it writable. This action can trigger an e-mail to registered watchers. There is a way to lock a revision so that commits cannot be done to it, which is not quite the same as reserved checkout. _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
