Re: Certain files are checkouted as read-only. Don't know why?

[Todd Denniston]

krevathi1912 wrote, On 12/19/2007 08:26 AM:
> Hi,
>
> We have a CVS where a large no of codes are checked in all the days.
> Today files in the ceratain directory alone is checkout as readonly for all
> the users.
> I am sure no specific restriction is applied on these files.
> We dont know what is the reason for it. WE are unable to rectify it also.
> Any one help us to rectify this problem. 
> How to remove the read-only restriction on these files.
>
>
>
> Regards
> Revathi

in the directory where these files are read only, try the following command:
cvs watchers -R

I expect you will find someone has used the `cvs watch` command, I did not 
think it was supposed to make things RO but it has for me in the past. My 
solution for folks who wanted to watch files was to make a script that always 
applied watches as `cvs watch add -a commit filename`, and have them use that.

or someone may have used `cvs edit` unnecessarily.

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Todd Denniston
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