Re: Repository know who has checkouts?

[Richard J. Duncan]

> Does the CVS repository keep any kind of track of who has checked out?  If
> it does where does it store this information?

It depends, did you set a watch?

Read pages 27 in the Cederqvist CVS manual, then section 6.6. We add a
watch to the entire source tree. Then when people checkout code they
must run "cvs edit" to get a writable version of the file before
making modifications"

The cvs editors command then call tell you who has typed "edit" on a
given file. The information is tracked in the repository CVS/fileattr
file. 

If I have this file:

 $LOCAL_ROOT/class/shell/Sdb/sdb_02.cc

Then the actual editors data will be tracked in 

 cat $CVSROOT/class/shell/Sdb/CVS/fileattr | grep sdb_02.cc

and it will look something like this:

Fsdb_02.cc      _watched=;_editors=peng>Tue Oct  3 20:50:08 2000 
GMT+isip207.isip.msstate.edu+/isip/d207/peng/tools/class/shell/Sdb;_watchers=peng>tedit+tunedit+tcommit

Generally speaking just use the "cvs edit", "cvs unedit", and "cvs
editors" command rather than looking at the files directly, though.

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