Re: pserver cvs unrecognized response

[Larry Jones]

Martin d'Anjou writes:
> 
> cvs edit file.ext
> cvs edit: warning: unrecognized response `user1 is editing the file. 
> Please "cvs unedit <thefile>".' from cvs server

You're using WinCVS, aren't you?  This is a bug in WinCVS.

> Now it happens that the unrecognized response is taken from the notify 
> file which looks like this:
> ALL echo %s is editing the file. Please \"cvs unedit \<thefile\>\".

One way to work around the bug is to change the notify file so that the
message begins with "error ":

  ALL echo error %s is editing the file. Please \"cvs unedit \<thefile\>\".

-Larry Jones

It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool. -- Calvin