Hi, you might have another person watching your file. To make your file writable, you then should issue the command: cvs edit <filename> The people who watch this file will then be notified via email that you are editing this file, and the file in your sandbox will become writable. if you want to commit your changes to the repository then do so, and after that the file will be read-only again. If you want to abandon your changes then you can issue: cvs unedit <filename> Again, the file will become read-only for you.
Another possibility is that the default check-out method makes your files read-only. I do not know by heart how this is realised. Maybe other people could fill in on that... Aad On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 06:30, Y Hu wrote: > Thanks Mark. > > The file dummy.c is really in the server depository > (it is not a real file name, just for example here). > > I know "cvs co module" works, it checks out the whole > directory. Now, the real question is how do you check > out a file for editing? I thought "cvs co dummy.c" > changes a read-only file dummy.c to a read-write file > in my local directory, so that I can edit the dummy.c > in my local directory. If I use "cvs update dummy.c", > it won't change the read-only attribute. What is the > GNU cvs command to check out a file for editing? > > Thank you. _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
