On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 12:31:17PM -0400, Larry Jones wrote: > dd hh writes: > > > > Is it possible to have a file that can be checkout but > > which cannot be committed or updated? If yes pl let me know how to do > > it. It is required that once this file is checked out changes on the > > particular file can be done on local directory but this file cannot be > > commited back to the repository.Also on doing cvs update the changes > > made in this file in local directory should not be lost . > > Yes and no. You can have read-only *directories* in the repository by > setting the permissions to allow reading but not writing, but you can't > have both read-only and writable files in a single directory. Update > never loses local changes unless the user specifically requests it -- by > default, it merges repository changes with the local changes and reports > any resulting conflicts.
Hi Larry, Yes, you are right, the file needs to be in a seperate directory, since directory perms override file perms ( 'doh! ). Thanks, Rob _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
