>>>>> "GAW" == Greg A Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
GAW> [ On Thursday, October 11, 2001 at 08:24:11 (+0530), Shubhabrata
GAW> Sengupta wrote: ]
>> Subject: Re: How to lock CVS for check-in
>>
>> Wondering why this enhancement is needed in the commitinfo interface
>> when you can always get the branch information out of the CVS/Entries
>> file which is always available to the commitinfo script.
GAW> I'm not sure the CVS/Entries file is always available, and in any
GAW> case accessing it directly is a very very very bad hack. Its
GAW> contents should be private and for CVS internal use only. The fact
GAW> that some of its structure is documented in the manual is not
GAW> permission to go mucking about in it unless you're cleaning up some
GAW> form of corruption or another.
So what do _you_ recommend for implementing branch locking?
...Jake
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