Hello Doug, [almost a full-quote as I added the mailing list back into the To: field]
* On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 02:41:45AM -0400 Doug Lee wrote: > > Did you eventually WORK with that repository you checked out? For > > example, did you try to compile it before you tried to release it? [...] > This would make sense if I always used `cvs release -d' and the rm's > were done before the release itself... but this is even before the > "Are you sure" prompt appears, and it occurs even without -d being > specified. I would think CVS would not have to open any checked-out > files--just the admin files in the checkout--but could use the file > date/time stamps on the files. No lock should be able to prevent > this, so even if Windows has (non-CVS-admin) files open, I'd think the > `cvs release' would get farther than it does. Windows would have no > reason to open CVS admin files. > > The mystery remains... Ah, ok, in this case, I understood you wrong. I am using CVS extensively on Windows (XP SP1, 2000 SP4) with cygwin, but AFAIR, I never had this behaviour. Regards, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://cbm4win.sf.net/ http://www.trikaliotis.net/ http://www.viceteam.org/ _______________________________________________ Info-cvs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-cvs
