Re: cvs editors funny

[Paul Sander]

Be careful here.  The location appears to the directory identified by  
the client at the time the edit was done.  Due to network mounts, this  
path is not unique.  So when editing, unediting, or committing a file,  
there's really no way to know if the workspace you're affecting is  
really the one recorded by a prior edit.

On Mar 29, 2005, at 6:22 AM, address@hidden wrote:

> Colm Aengus Murphy wrote:
> > The current cvs edit command stores the users name and workspace
> > location in the fileattr file. I'm guessing that when you unedit or
> > checkin it it only matching the users name and not the workspace
> > location. How difficult would it be to check the users name and
> > workspace location and only remove the edit if it matches ?
> Huh, whaddya know - it looks like CVS already captures that  
> information. I
> issued a 'watch on' and 'edit' on a .cvsignore file, and the fileattr
> contains:
>
> F.cvsignore     _watched=;_editors=jhyslop>Tue Mar 29 14:13:46 2005
> GMT+01-2189+E:\cvs\cvs-test\jhyslop; 
> _watchers=jhyslop>tedit+tunedit+tcommit
>
> The datestamp and path are displayed when you issue 'cvs editors'.
>
> It only stores one per user, though - I checked out the project into a
> different directory, issued the 'cvs edit' command and got:
>
> F.cvsignore     _watched=;_editors=jhyslop>Tue Mar 29 14:16:07 2005
> GMT+01-2189+E:\cvs\cvstest2;_watchers=jhyslop>tedit+tunedit+tcommit
>
> So the infrastructure may be there already. It may not be as difficult  
> as I
> thought.
>
> > We do find that old edits hang around when uses forget to use
> > unedit and
> > just remove the workspace. This isn't a major pain as you can
> > just edit
> > the fileattr to remove the unused edits.
> Ick - I hate having to manually edit the file (we have a lot of people  
> who
> have left, but forgot to 'cvs watch remove' before they left). One of  
> these
> days, when I have the time, I'm going to work on implementing rwatch  
> and
> redit commands, with options to specify the user.
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