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Re: Is there any way to share the working directory


From: Kaz Kylheku
Subject: Re: Is there any way to share the working directory
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 08:19:31 -0800 (PST)

On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, mail_hari wrote:

> Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 06:48:42 -0000
> From: mail_hari <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: [info-cvs] Is there any way to share the working directory
> 
> 
> Our team is using CVS for version control. We three people are 
> working as a subset of the whole team as a separate project. We would 
> like to share the working directory with a checked out version of 
> code.

CVS is not designed to support this use case. Its concurrency model is
among sandboxes, not within a sandbox.

> To make it clear, in sccs we all could use the same directory as the 
> working directory. sccs edit will make a component editable, sccs 

In CVS, you all share the same repository. The CVS analog of sccs edit
is cvs checkout. This makes files editable by making a local copy.  You
can make a sequence of changes in isolation and then commit them as one
unit of work.

The use case you are looking for is better supported by RCS, which is
a primitive tool similar to SCCS that CVS was based on.

-- 
Meta-CVS: solid version control tool with directory structure versioning. 
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