Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Re: file sharing semantics

[Colin Fox]

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Neal Becker wrote:

| My experience with cvs is that someone else checked in a file, and now I
| cannot checkin an update to it.  Yes, I can manually go into the cvs repos
| and mv the other file out of the way, and manually replace it with a
copy I
| own.  But cvs won't let me checkin.

This isn't strictly a CVS thing - it has to do with the filesystem
permissions. We solved this problem by making all the developers members
of the DEVEL group, and setting the 'sticky' bit for groups for all the
directories of a project. So the permissions for the directories were
drwxrws---, instead of drwx------.

So although Bob might check something in, and it would be marked as
owned by him, it would also be owned by DEVEL, and Fred could also
execute his commit.

cf
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