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Re: setting up a read only group along with the normal dev. group
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Larry Jones |
Subject: |
Re: setting up a read only group along with the normal dev. group |
Date: |
Thu, 6 Sep 2001 15:32:37 -0400 (EDT) |
Jones, Lee writes:
>
> The manual says that all directories must have write permissions for whoever
> needs to checkout from the repository so that CVS can create the temporary
> lock files.
That's true *if the lock files are in the repository* (which they are by
default). If you use LockDir in your CVSROOT/config file to put the
lock files somewhere else, then you can make directories read-only for
users that are allowed to check them out but not commit changes.
http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_18.html#SEC177
-Larry Jones
Just when I thought this junk was beginning to make sense. -- Calvin