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Re: Do most people checkout read-only and use "cvs edit"?


From: JGentilin
Subject: Re: Do most people checkout read-only and use "cvs edit"?
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 17:16:09 -0400

I don't believe the 'edit' does a lock on the server.

Quoting Vesperman's book:

"The cvs edit command is used as part of the cvs watch family of commands.
If a file is being watched, it is checked out to the sandbox with read
permissions but not write permissions.  The edit command sets the sandbox
file as writeable, notifies any watchers that the file is being edited, and
sets the user as a temporary watcher to be notified if certain actions are
performed on the file by other users"

I did a quick check and a file that I did an 'edit' on did not show up with
a lock using 'log'.




"Mark D. Baushke" <address@hidden> wrote in message
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Karr, David <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm not talking about locking. It's always
> impractical to "check out with locks", in any
> SCM.

Hmmm... 'cvs edit' implies locking, so, your
question asked all of us about 'locking' even if
you did not know that was what you were asking.

> I'm just talking about what happens in the
> user's client view.

This is not what your message suggested.

> I was under the impression before that "cvs
> edit" just affects the file in the user's client
> view.

This is an invalid impression. A 'cvs edit'
creates an advisory lock.

> Does this also lock the file on the server?

Yes it does.

-- Mark
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